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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2008-12-03 11:04:51 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-03 11:15:03 -0500
commite8e1abe92fd7ea9d823a3aaf81d10e2cba593b6b (patch)
tree9ddeaf43558b2ad13c6b4758b17b84781f0217a7 /kernel/fork.c
parent0a37119d963e876ca86912497346ec50dea2541b (diff)
ftrace: fix race in function graph during fork
Impact: graph tracer race/crash fix There is a nasy race in startup of a new process running the function graph tracer. In fork.c: total_forks++; spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); ftrace_graph_init_task(p); proc_fork_connector(p); cgroup_post_fork(p); return p; The new task is free to run as soon as the tasklist_lock is released. This is before the ftrace_graph_init_task. If the task does run it will be using the same ret_stack and curr_ret_stack as the parent. This will cause crashes that are difficult to debug. This patch moves the ftrace_graph_init_task to just after the alloc_pid code. This fixes the above race. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 5f82a999c03..7407ab31987 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1137,6 +1137,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1137 } 1137 }
1138 } 1138 }
1139 1139
1140 ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
1141
1140 p->pid = pid_nr(pid); 1142 p->pid = pid_nr(pid);
1141 p->tgid = p->pid; 1143 p->tgid = p->pid;
1142 if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) 1144 if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
@@ -1145,7 +1147,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1145 if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) { 1147 if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) {
1146 retval = ns_cgroup_clone(p, pid); 1148 retval = ns_cgroup_clone(p, pid);
1147 if (retval) 1149 if (retval)
1148 goto bad_fork_free_pid; 1150 goto bad_fork_free_graph;
1149 } 1151 }
1150 1152
1151 p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL; 1153 p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
@@ -1238,7 +1240,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1238 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock); 1240 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
1239 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); 1241 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
1240 retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR; 1242 retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
1241 goto bad_fork_free_pid; 1243 goto bad_fork_free_graph;
1242 } 1244 }
1243 1245
1244 if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { 1246 if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
@@ -1271,11 +1273,12 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1271 total_forks++; 1273 total_forks++;
1272 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock); 1274 spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
1273 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); 1275 write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
1274 ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
1275 proc_fork_connector(p); 1276 proc_fork_connector(p);
1276 cgroup_post_fork(p); 1277 cgroup_post_fork(p);
1277 return p; 1278 return p;
1278 1279
1280bad_fork_free_graph:
1281 ftrace_graph_exit_task(p);
1279bad_fork_free_pid: 1282bad_fork_free_pid:
1280 if (pid != &init_struct_pid) 1283 if (pid != &init_struct_pid)
1281 free_pid(pid); 1284 free_pid(pid);