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authorMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org>2014-06-06 14:36:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-06 16:08:11 -0700
commit4e52365f279564cef0ddd41db5237f0471381093 (patch)
tree6f9b4c19ea6bd5b80c22f59340923174ac4dee3c /include/linux
parent615cc2c9cf9529846fbc342560d6787c2ccaaeea (diff)
ptrace: fix fork event messages across pid namespaces
When tracing a process in another pid namespace, it's important for fork event messages to contain the child's pid as seen from the tracer's pid namespace, not the parent's. Otherwise, the tracer won't be able to correlate the fork event with later SIGTRAP signals it receives from the child. We still risk a race condition if a ptracer from a different pid namespace attaches after we compute the pid_t value. However, sending a bogus fork event message in this unlikely scenario is still a vast improvement over the status quo where we always send bogus fork event messages to debuggers in a different pid namespace than the forking process. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@chromium.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@chromium.org> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index 07d0df6bf76..077904c8b70 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h> /* For struct task_struct. */
#include <linux/err.h> /* for IS_ERR_VALUE */
#include <linux/bug.h> /* For BUG_ON. */
+#include <linux/pid_namespace.h> /* For task_active_pid_ns. */
#include <uapi/linux/ptrace.h>
/*
@@ -129,6 +130,37 @@ static inline void ptrace_event(int event, unsigned long message)
}
/**
+ * ptrace_event_pid - possibly stop for a ptrace event notification
+ * @event: %PTRACE_EVENT_* value to report
+ * @pid: process identifier for %PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG to return
+ *
+ * Check whether @event is enabled and, if so, report @event and @pid
+ * to the ptrace parent. @pid is reported as the pid_t seen from the
+ * the ptrace parent's pid namespace.
+ *
+ * Called without locks.
+ */
+static inline void ptrace_event_pid(int event, struct pid *pid)
+{
+ /*
+ * FIXME: There's a potential race if a ptracer in a different pid
+ * namespace than parent attaches between computing message below and
+ * when we acquire tasklist_lock in ptrace_stop(). If this happens,
+ * the ptracer will get a bogus pid from PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG.
+ */
+ unsigned long message = 0;
+ struct pid_namespace *ns;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ns = task_active_pid_ns(rcu_dereference(current->parent));
+ if (ns)
+ message = pid_nr_ns(pid, ns);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ ptrace_event(event, message);
+}
+
+/**
* ptrace_init_task - initialize ptrace state for a new child
* @child: new child task
* @ptrace: true if child should be ptrace'd by parent's tracer