From a2a8474c3fff88d8dd52d05cb450563fb26fd26c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:17:13 -0700 Subject: exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read /proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since "mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec" 04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d commit in 2.6.31. But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC. The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex. Even if we remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(), another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the tracee resumes. With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and we do not hold it throughout, instead: - introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred. - install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(), and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop(). or, if exec fails, free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which indicates install_exec_creds() was not called. Reported-by: Tom Horsley Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: David Howells Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/compat.c | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/compat.c') diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c index 94502da..6d6f98f 100644 --- a/fs/compat.c +++ b/fs/compat.c @@ -1485,20 +1485,15 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename, if (!bprm) goto out_files; - retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR; - if (mutex_lock_interruptible(¤t->cred_guard_mutex)) + retval = prepare_bprm_creds(bprm); + if (retval) goto out_free; - current->in_execve = 1; - - retval = -ENOMEM; - bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds(); - if (!bprm->cred) - goto out_unlock; retval = check_unsafe_exec(bprm); if (retval < 0) - goto out_unlock; + goto out_free; clear_in_exec = retval; + current->in_execve = 1; file = open_exec(filename); retval = PTR_ERR(file); @@ -1547,7 +1542,6 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename, /* execve succeeded */ current->fs->in_exec = 0; current->in_execve = 0; - mutex_unlock(¤t->cred_guard_mutex); acct_update_integrals(current); free_bprm(bprm); if (displaced) @@ -1567,10 +1561,7 @@ out_file: out_unmark: if (clear_in_exec) current->fs->in_exec = 0; - -out_unlock: current->in_execve = 0; - mutex_unlock(¤t->cred_guard_mutex); out_free: free_bprm(bprm); -- cgit v1.1