Commit 7f2a5255 authored Oct 30, 2005 by Roland McGrath Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 30, 2005

[PATCH] wait4 PTRACE_ATTACH race fix



Back about a year ago when I last fiddled heavily with the do_wait code, I
was thinking too hard about the wrong thing and I now think I introduced a
bug whose inverse thought I was fixing.

Apparently noone was looking too hard over much shoulder, so as to cite my
bogus reasoning at the time.  In the race condition when PTRACE_ATTACH is
about to steal a child and then the child hits a tracing event (what
my_ptrace_child checks for), the real parent does need to set its flag
noting it has some eligible live children.  Otherwise a spurious ECHILD
error is possible, since the child in question is not yet on the
ptrace_children list.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 396dc44b

kernel/exit.c

+9 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1383,6 +1383,15 @@ repeat:

		switch (p->state) {
		case TASK_TRACED:
		/*
		* When we hit the race with PTRACE_ATTACH,
		* we will not report this child. But the
		* race means it has not yet been moved to
		* our ptrace_children list, so we need to
		* set the flag here to avoid a spurious ECHILD
		* when the race happens with the only child.
		*/
		flag = 1;
		if (!my_ptrace_child(p))
		continue;
		/FALLTHROUGH/

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