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authorMarkus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>2009-02-11 15:10:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-11 15:44:20 +0100
commit9f339e7028e2855717af3193c938f9960ad13b38 (patch)
tree76e0e9181f4ee2b324742d517518e837d5c250bf /mm
parent06eb23b1ba39c61ee5d5faeb42a097635693e370 (diff)
x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 028ec482fdd..2b57f7e6039 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size)
return buffer;
}
-void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size)
+void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size)
{
unsigned long pgsz = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -667,6 +667,11 @@ void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size)
current->mm->locked_vm -= pgsz;
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+}
+
+void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size)
+{
+ release_locked_buffer(buffer, size);
kfree(buffer);
}