ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
index cd3b2438a98..9b4d51d0c0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c
@@ -165,10 +165,11 @@ void set_task_blockstep(struct task_struct *task, bool on)
 	 * Ensure irq/preemption can't change debugctl in between.
 	 * Note also that both TIF_BLOCKSTEP and debugctl should
 	 * be changed atomically wrt preemption.
-	 * FIXME: this means that set/clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP is simply
-	 * wrong if task != current, SIGKILL can wakeup the stopped
-	 * tracee and set/clear can play with the running task, this
-	 * can confuse the next __switch_to_xtra().
+	 *
+	 * NOTE: this means that set/clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP is only safe if
+	 * task is current or it can't be running, otherwise we can race
+	 * with __switch_to_xtra(). We rely on ptrace_freeze_traced() but
+	 * PTRACE_KILL is not safe.
 	 */
 	local_irq_disable();
 	debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();