ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints

When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index a1147e5dd245..9178d5cc0b01 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ static inline void ptrace_init_task(struct task_struct *child, bool ptrace)
                 child->ptrace = current->ptrace;
                 __ptrace_link(child, current->parent);
         }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+        atomic_set(&child->ptrace_bp_refcnt, 1);
+#endif
 }
 
 /**
@@ -350,6 +354,13 @@ extern int task_current_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
                                 unsigned long args[6], unsigned int maxargs,
                                 unsigned long *sp, unsigned long *pc);
 
-#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+extern int ptrace_get_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk);
+extern void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk);
+#else
+static inline void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL */
 
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 18d63cea2848..781abd137673 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1537,6 +1537,9 @@ struct task_struct {
                 unsigned long memsw_nr_pages; /* uncharged mem+swap usage */
         } memcg_batch;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+        atomic_t ptrace_bp_refcnt;
+#endif
 };
 
 /* Future-safe accessor for struct task_struct's cpus_allowed. */