1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0a5df5f82fb9..5a4c23d89892 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -810,12 +810,16 @@ static void ptrace_bts_untrace(struct task_struct *child)
 
 static void ptrace_bts_detach(struct task_struct *child)
 {
-        if (unlikely(child->bts)) {
-                ds_release_bts(child->bts);
-                child->bts = NULL;
-
-                ptrace_bts_free_buffer(child);
-        }
+        /*
+         * Ptrace_detach() races with ptrace_untrace() in case
+         * the child dies and is reaped by another thread.
+         *
+         * We only do the memory accounting at this point and
+         * leave the buffer deallocation and the bts tracer
+         * release to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called
+         * later on with tasklist_lock held.
+         */
+        release_locked_buffer(child->bts_buffer, child->bts_size);
 }
 #else
 static inline void ptrace_bts_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) {}