linux/kernel
Tejun Heo 16d0a1bf78 ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()
commit 01e05e9a90 upstream.

The wake_up_process() call in ptrace_detach() is spurious and not
interlocked with the tracee state.  IOW, the tracee could be running or
sleeping in any place in the kernel by the time wake_up_process() is
called.  This can lead to the tracee waking up unexpectedly which can be
dangerous.

The wake_up is spurious and should be removed but for now reduce its
toxicity by only waking up if the tracee is in TRACED or STOPPED state.

This bug can possibly be used as an attack vector.  I don't think it
will take too much effort to come up with an attack which triggers oops
somewhere.  Most sleeps are wrapped in condition test loops and should
be safe but we have quite a number of places where sleep and wakeup
conditions are expected to be interlocked.  Although the window of
opportunity is tiny, ptrace can be used by non-privileged users and with
some loading the window can definitely be extended and exploited.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-17 15:37:03 -08:00
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gcov gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module types 2010-09-20 13:17:53 -07:00
irq irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPEND 2010-08-13 13:19:50 -07:00
power PM / Hibernate: Fix PM_POST_* notification with user-space suspend 2011-01-07 14:43:06 -08:00
time timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp 2010-08-13 13:20:13 -07:00
trace tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing 2011-01-07 14:43:10 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c bsdacct: fix uid/gid misreporting 2009-12-18 14:03:52 -08:00
async.c
audit_tree.c fix more leaks in audit_tree.c tag_chunk() 2010-01-18 10:19:50 -08:00
audit_watch.c Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes 2009-09-24 03:50:25 -04:00
audit.c Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c Freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer 2010-04-26 07:41:17 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroups: fix 2.6.32 regression causing BUG_ON() in cgroup_diput() 2010-01-18 10:19:32 -08:00
compat.c compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-20 13:17:57 -07:00
configs.c
cpu.c sched: _cpu_down(): Don't play with current->cpus_allowed 2010-09-20 13:18:08 -07:00
cpuset.c sched: Make select_fallback_rq() cpuset friendly 2010-09-20 13:18:08 -07:00
cred-internals.h
cred.c CRED: Fix a race in creds_are_invalid() in credentials debugging 2010-05-12 14:57:10 -07:00
delayacct.c headers: taskstats_kern.h trim 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec 2011-01-07 14:43:19 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces 2010-09-20 13:18:02 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting 2010-11-22 10:47:31 -08:00
groups.c kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search 2010-09-20 13:17:54 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Preserve timer state in remove_hrtimer() 2010-10-28 21:44:01 -07:00
hung_task.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
itimer.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: use new arch_is_kernel_text() 2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c kfifo: Use "const" definitions 2009-09-19 13:13:17 -07:00
kgdb.c
kmod.c Revert "kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code" 2009-09-23 18:12:10 -07:00
kprobes.c const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c cpuset: fix the problem that cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline node 2010-04-01 15:58:46 -07:00
latencytop.c latencytop: fix per task accumulator 2010-12-09 13:26:51 -08:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c Revert "lockdep: fix incorrect percpu usage" 2010-06-01 09:45:46 -07:00
Makefile SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs 2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
module.c dynamic debug: move ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module() 2010-08-02 10:20:47 -07:00
mutex-debug.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL 2010-07-05 11:10:31 -07:00
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
nsproxy.c
panic.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
params.c param: fix setting arrays of bool 2009-10-29 08:56:20 +10:30
perf_event.c Fix racy use of anon_inode_getfd() in perf_event.c 2010-07-05 11:10:30 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
pid.c mm: also use alloc_large_system_hash() for the PID hash table 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
posix-timers.c posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_create 2010-07-05 11:10:30 -07:00
printk.c nohz: Fix printk_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus 2011-01-07 14:43:03 -08:00
profile.c profile: fix stats and data leakage 2010-05-26 14:29:18 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach() 2011-02-17 15:37:03 -08:00
rcupdate.c rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
rcutorture.c rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback 2009-09-23 19:46:30 +02:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions 2009-12-18 14:03:04 -08:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
rcutree.c rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum 2009-12-18 14:03:01 -08:00
rcutree.h rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions 2009-12-18 14:03:04 -08:00
relay.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
res_counter.c memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim. 2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
resource.c walk system ram range 2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2010-01-22 15:18:30 -08:00
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats 2010-09-20 13:17:59 -07:00
sched_fair.c sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() 2010-09-20 13:18:12 -07:00
sched_features.h sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING 2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlock 2010-09-20 13:18:09 -07:00
sched_rt.c sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlock 2010-09-20 13:18:09 -07:00
sched_stats.h
sched.c sched: Fix string comparison in /proc/sched_features 2010-11-22 10:47:30 -08:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: check_kill_permission(): don't check creds if same_thread_group() 2010-07-05 11:10:56 -07:00
slow-work-debugfs.c SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs 2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
slow-work.c slow-work: use get_ref wrapper instead of directly calling get_ref 2010-08-10 10:20:45 -07:00
slow-work.h SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs 2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
smp.c cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi 2009-09-24 09:34:47 +09:30
softirq.c softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name 2009-09-17 15:53:44 -04:00
softlockup.c softlockup: Stop spurious softlockup messages due to overflow 2010-04-01 15:58:47 -07:00
spinlock.c locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks 2009-08-31 18:08:50 +02:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-09-24 15:13:11 -07:00
sys.c pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section 2010-09-26 17:21:25 -07:00
sysctl_check.c NET: fix oops at bootime in sysctl code 2010-02-09 04:51:02 -08:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: fix stable merge error in NOMMU mmap_min_addr 2010-01-18 10:19:49 -08:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec() 2009-09-15 10:17:30 +02:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c nohz: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() vs cpu hotplug 2011-01-07 14:43:03 -08:00
tracepoint.c trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c headers: utsname.h redux 2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
up.c
user_namespace.c
user.c uids: Prevent tear down race 2009-11-02 16:02:39 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
utsname.c
wait.c
workqueue.c workqueue: fix race condition in schedule_on_each_cpu() 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00