ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall

The comment suggests that this usage is stale. There is no bkl in the
exec path so if there is a race lurking there, the bkl in ptrace is
not going to help in this regard.

Overview of the possibility of "accidental" races this bkl might
protect:

- ptrace_traceme() is protected against task removal and concurrent
read/write on current->ptrace as it locks write tasklist_lock.

- arch_ptrace_attach() is serialized by ptrace_traceme() against
concurrent PTRACE_TRACEME or PTRACE_ATTACH

- ptrace_attach() is protected the same way ptrace_traceme() and
in turn serializes arch_ptrace_attach()

- ptrace_check_attach() does its own well described serializing too.

There is no obvious race here.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 42ad8ae729a0..53575020f82b 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -666,10 +666,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, long, addr, long, data)
         struct task_struct *child;
         long ret;
 
-        /*
-         * This lock_kernel fixes a subtle race with suid exec
-         */
-        lock_kernel();
         if (request == PTRACE_TRACEME) {
                 ret = ptrace_traceme();
                 if (!ret)
@@ -703,7 +699,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, long, addr, long, data)
  out_put_task_struct:
         put_task_struct(child);
  out:
-        unlock_kernel();
         return ret;
 }
 
@@ -813,10 +808,6 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ptrace(compat_long_t request, compat_long_t pid,
         struct task_struct *child;
         long ret;
 
-        /*
-         * This lock_kernel fixes a subtle race with suid exec
-         */
-        lock_kernel();
         if (request == PTRACE_TRACEME) {
                 ret = ptrace_traceme();
                 goto out;
@@ -846,7 +837,6 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ptrace(compat_long_t request, compat_long_t pid,
  out_put_task_struct:
         put_task_struct(child);
  out:
-        unlock_kernel();
         return ret;
 }
 #endif  /* CONFIG_COMPAT */