powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

While the tracer accesses ptrace breakpoints, the child task may
concurrently exit due to a SIGKILL and thus release its breakpoints
at the same time. We can then dereference some freed pointers.

To fix this, hold a reference on the child breakpoints before
manipulating them.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 55613e33e263..4edeeb325429 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,10 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
         }
 
         case PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG:
+                if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(child) < 0)
+                        return -ESRCH;
                 ret = ptrace_set_debugreg(child, addr, data);
+                ptrace_put_breakpoints(child);
                 break;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64