From 95a3540da9c81a5987be810e1d9a83640a366bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic Another ancient bug. Consider this trivial test-case, int main(void) { int pid = fork(); if (pid) { ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL); wait(NULL); ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, NULL, NULL); } else { pause(); printf("WE HAVE A KERNEL BUG!!!\n"); } return 0; } the child must not "escape" for sys_pause(), but it can and this was seen in practice. This is because ptrace_detach does: if (!child->exit_state) wake_up_process(child); this wakeup can happen after this child has already restarted sys_pause(), because it gets another wakeup from ptrace_untrace(). With or without this patch, perhaps sys_pause() needs a fix. But this wakeup also breaks the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED logic in ptrace_untrace(). Remove this wakeup. The caller saw this task in TASK_TRACED state, and unless it was SIGKILL'ed in between __ptrace_unlink()->ptrace_untrace() should handle this case correctly. If it was SIGKILL'ed, we don't need to wakup the dying tracee too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jerome Marchand Acked-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index f5a9fa5..296e810 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -301,11 +301,7 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data) */ if (child->ptrace) { child->exit_code = data; - dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child); - - if (!child->exit_state) - wake_up_process(child); } write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); -- 1.8.2.3