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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-05-11 11:08:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-05-11 11:08:49 -0700 |
| commit | f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de (patch) | |
| tree | 7f5349d9e8b59633b9f8a7bd9bcd45ace1d21a41 /kernel/ptrace.c | |
| parent | 0e44dc383787b472a7f13564c6bd8a44cc07d408 (diff) | |
ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs
Eric Biederman points out that we can't take the task_lock while holding
tasklist_lock for writing, because another CPU that holds the task lock
might take an interrupt that then tries to take tasklist_lock for writing.
Which would be a nasty deadlock, with one CPU spinning forever in an
interrupt handler (although admittedly you need to really work at
triggering it ;)
Since the ptrace_attach() code is special and very unusual, just make it
be extra careful, and use trylock+repeat to avoid the possible deadlock.
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index b0f8da80d7d4..921c22ad16e4 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -155,8 +155,26 @@ int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task) if (task->tgid == current->tgid) goto out; - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); +repeat: + /* + * Nasty, nasty. + * + * We want to hold both the task-lock and the + * tasklist_lock for writing at the same time. + * But that's against the rules (tasklist_lock + * is taken for reading by interrupts on other + * cpu's that may have task_lock). + */ task_lock(task); + local_irq_disable(); + if (!write_trylock(&tasklist_lock)) { + local_irq_enable(); + task_unlock(task); + do { + cpu_relax(); + } while (!write_can_lock(&tasklist_lock)); + goto repeat; + } /* the same process cannot be attached many times */ if (task->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) |