[PATCH 3/5] powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

[Frederic Weisbecker]

(resend with ppc list in cc)

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 at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal at linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 55613e3..4edeeb3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,10 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	}
 
 	case PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG:
+		if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(child) < 0)
+			return -ESRCH;
 		ret = ptrace_set_debugreg(child, addr, data);
+		ptrace_put_breakpoints(child);
 		break;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-- 
1.7.3.2