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powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:29:36 +0000 (17:29 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:33:54 +0000 (17:33 +0200)
commit07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d
tree2200131ce41d391b0733fdd5c4c8abeaddceca78
parent87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4
powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

While the tracer accesses ptrace breakpoints, the child task may
concurrently exit due to a SIGKILL and thus release its breakpoints
at the same time. We can then dereference some freed pointers.

To fix this, hold a reference on the child breakpoints before
manipulating them.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c