ptrace: PTRACE_GETFDPIC: fix the unsafe usage of child->mm
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:53 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:44 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
commite0129ef91ed758c06b6557c36124acfb2e1c7305
treee47392371ed106f2241d18ac6339bedd6c699c9b
parent9c1a125921d146f22cf28ff366ff69fd602a0e9b
ptrace: PTRACE_GETFDPIC: fix the unsafe usage of child->mm

Now that Mike Frysinger unified the FDPIC ptrace code, we can fix the
unsafe usage of child->mm in ptrace_request(PTRACE_GETFDPIC).

We have the reference to task_struct, and ptrace_check_attach() verified
the tracee is stopped.  But nothing can protect from SIGKILL after that,
we must not assume child->mm != NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/ptrace.c