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[PATCH] sys_getppid oopses on debug kernel 

sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory.  On kernels with
DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops.  As Dave Hansen noted, this
optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug.

So this patch always takes the lock to be safe.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kirill Korotaev 2006-08-13 23:24:23 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 012c437d03
commit 6997a6faaa
1 changed files with 7 additions and 34 deletions
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@ -1324,46 +1324,19 @@ asmlinkage long sys_getpid(void)
}
/*
* Accessing ->group_leader->real_parent is not SMP-safe, it could
* change from under us. However, rather than getting any lock
* we can use an optimistic algorithm: get the parent
* pid, and go back and check that the parent is still
* the same. If it has changed (which is extremely unlikely
* indeed), we just try again..
*
* NOTE! This depends on the fact that even if we _do_
* get an old value of "parent", we can happily dereference
* the pointer (it was and remains a dereferencable kernel pointer
* no matter what): we just can't necessarily trust the result
* until we know that the parent pointer is valid.
*
* NOTE2: ->group_leader never changes from under us.
* Accessing ->real_parent is not SMP-safe, it could
* change from under us. However, we can use a stale
* value of ->real_parent under rcu_read_lock(), see
* release_task()->call_rcu(delayed_put_task_struct).
*/
asmlinkage long sys_getppid(void)
{
int pid;
struct task_struct *me = current;
struct task_struct *parent;
parent = me->group_leader->real_parent;
for (;;) {
pid = parent->tgid;
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
{
struct task_struct *old = parent;
rcu_read_lock();
pid = rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)->tgid;
rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* Make sure we read the pid before re-reading the
* parent pointer:
*/
smp_rmb();
parent = me->group_leader->real_parent;
if (old != parent)
continue;
}
#endif
break;
}
return pid;
}