From e0ac8457d020c0289ea566917267da9e5e6d9865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 17:29:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sh, 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 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Paul Mundt Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Prasad Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com --- arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c b/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c index 2130ca6..3d7b209 100644 --- a/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c @@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ void user_enable_single_step(struct task_struct *child) set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP); + if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(child) < 0) + return; + set_single_step(child, pc); + ptrace_put_breakpoints(child); } void user_disable_single_step(struct task_struct *child) -- 2.7.4