linux-toradex.git/include/linux/ptrace.h, branch v2.6.31.2

ptrace_get_task_struct: s/tasklist/rcu/, make it static

2009-06-18T20:03:51+00:00

- Use rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock to find/get the task
  in ptrace_get_task_struct().

- Make it static, it has no callers outside of ptrace.c.

- The comment doesn't match the reality, this helper does not do
  any checks. Beacuse it is really trivial and static I removed the
  whole comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86, ptrace: add bts context unconditionally

2009-04-07T11:36:31+00:00

Add the ptrace bts context field to task_struct unconditionally.

Initialize the field directly in copy_process().
Remove all the unneeded functionality used to initialize that field.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger 
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144603.292754000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part

2009-04-03T02:05:00+00:00

By discussion with Roland.

- Rename ptrace_exit() to exit_ptrace(), and change it to do all the
  necessary work with ->ptraced list by its own.

- Move this code from exit.c to ptrace.c

- Update the comment in ptrace_detach() to explain the rechecking of
  the child->ptrace.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ptrace: fix possible zombie leak on PTRACE_DETACH

2009-04-03T02:04:59+00:00

When ptrace_detach() takes tasklist, the tracee can be SIGKILL'ed.  If it
has already passed exit_notify() we can leak a zombie, because a) ptracing
disables the auto-reaping logic, and b) ->real_parent was not notified
about the child's death.

ptrace_detach() should follow the ptrace_exit's logic, change the code
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Tested-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86, bts: add fork and exit handling

2008-12-20T08:15:46+00:00

Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

make ptrace_untrace() static

2008-10-20T15:52:39+00:00

ptrace_untrace() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: fix CLONE_PTRACE

2008-08-08T00:18:47+00:00

In the change in commit 09a05394fe2448a4139b014936330af23fa7ec83, I
overlooked two nits in the logic and this broke using CLONE_PTRACE
when PTRACE_O_TRACE* are not being used.

A parent that is itself traced at all but not using PTRACE_O_TRACE*,
using CLONE_PTRACE would have its new child fail to be traced.

A parent that is not itself traced at all that uses CLONE_PTRACE
(which should be a no-op in this case) would confuse the bookkeeping
and lead to a crash at exit time.

This restores the missing checks and fixes both failure modes.

Reported-by: Eduardo Habkost 
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath

task_current_syscall

2008-07-26T19:00:10+00:00

This adds the new function task_current_syscall() on machines where the
asm/syscall.h interface is supported (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK).  It's
exported for modules to use in the future.  This function safely samples
the state of a blocked thread to collect what system call it is blocked
in, and the six system call argument registers.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: release_task

2008-07-26T19:00:08+00:00

This moves the ptrace-related logic from release_task into tracehook.h and
ptrace.h inlines.  It provides clean hooks both before and after locking
tasklist_lock, for future tracing logic to do more cleanup without the
lock.

This also changes release_task() itself in the rare "zap_leader" case to
set the leader to EXIT_DEAD before iterating.  This maintains the
invariant that release_task() only ever handles a task in EXIT_DEAD.  This
is a common-sense invariant that is already always true except in this one
arcane case of zombie leader whose parent ignores SIGCHLD.

This change is harmless and only costs one store in this one rare case.
It keeps the expected state more consisently sane, which is nicer when
debugging weirdness in release_task().  It also lets some future code in
the tracehook entry points rely on this invariant for bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: clone

2008-07-26T19:00:08+00:00

This moves all the ptrace initialization and tracing logic for task
creation into tracehook.h and ptrace.h inlines.  It reorganizes the code
slightly, but should not change any behavior.

There are four tracehook entry points, at each important stage of task
creation.  This keeps the interface from the core fork.c code fairly
clean, while supporting the complex setup required for ptrace or something
like it.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds