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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-05-05 12:25:36 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-05-11 14:34:47 -0500
commit7b0fe1367ef2d2591c20f03c4e64b7230e1ebcd7 (patch)
tree70fd0450f2d8b83abdcb4a5e220b3c38c4b4abdb /kernel/ptrace.c
parent6a2d90ba027adba528509ffa27097cffd3879257 (diff)
ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail
After ptrace_freeze_traced succeeds it is known that the tracee has a __state value of __TASK_TRACED and that no __ptrace_unlink will happen because the tracer is waiting for the tracee, and the tracee is in ptrace_stop. The function ptrace_freeze_traced can succeed at any point after ptrace_stop has set TASK_TRACED and dropped siglock. The read_lock on tasklist_lock only excludes ptrace_attach. This means that the !current->ptrace which executes under a read_lock of tasklist_lock will never see a ptrace_freeze_trace as the tracer must have gone away before the tasklist_lock was taken and ptrace_attach can not occur until the read_lock is dropped. As ptrace_freeze_traced depends upon ptrace_attach running before it can run that excludes ptrace_freeze_traced until __state is set to TASK_RUNNING. This means that task_is_traced will fail in ptrace_freeze_attach and ptrace_freeze_attached will fail. On the current->ptrace branch of ptrace_stop which will be reached any time after ptrace_freeze_traced has succeed it is known that __state is __TASK_TRACED and schedule() will be called with that state. Use a WARN_ON_ONCE to document that wait_task_inactive(TASK_TRACED) should never fail. Remove the stale comment about may_ptrace_stop. Strictly speaking this is not true because if PREEMPT_RT is enabled wait_task_inactive can fail because __state can be changed. I don't see this as a problem as the ptrace code is currently broken on PREMPT_RT, and this is one of the issues. Failing and warning when the assumptions of the code are broken is good. Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-8-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c14
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 7105821595bc..05953ac9f7bd 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -266,17 +266,9 @@ static int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
}
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (!ret && !ignore_state) {
- if (!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED)) {
- /*
- * This can only happen if may_ptrace_stop() fails and
- * ptrace_stop() changes ->state back to TASK_RUNNING,
- * so we should not worry about leaking __TASK_TRACED.
- */
- WARN_ON(READ_ONCE(child->__state) == __TASK_TRACED);
- ret = -ESRCH;
- }
- }
+ if (!ret && !ignore_state &&
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(child, __TASK_TRACED)))
+ ret = -ESRCH;
return ret;
}