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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-12-15 16:47:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 07:20:08 -0800
commit6580807da14c423f0d0a708108e6df6ebc8bc83d (patch)
tree553e2de8f2174f9bbb6ab9a2454b1306bb5eb4fa /kernel/fork.c
parentc6a47cc2ccf9649ee09eeddd70a6d061bde69568 (diff)
downloadlinux-6580807da14c423f0d0a708108e6df6ebc8bc83d.tar.gz
ptrace: copy_process() should disable stepping
If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child
starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent.
This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in
this case it is killed by SIGTRAP.

Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86.

Test-case:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <signal.h>
	#include <sys/ptrace.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <assert.h>

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		if (!(pid = fork())) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);

			if (!fork()) {
				/* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */
				printf("Hello world\n");
				return 43;
			}

			wait(&status);
			return WEXITSTATUS(status);
		}

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&status));
			if (WIFEXITED(status))
				break;
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		}

		assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43);
		return 0;
	}

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index b6cbd33dde80..202a0ba63d3c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1210,9 +1210,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 		p->sas_ss_sp = p->sas_ss_size = 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * Syscall tracing should be turned off in the child regardless
-	 * of CLONE_PTRACE.
+	 * Syscall tracing and stepping should be turned off in the
+	 * child regardless of CLONE_PTRACE.
 	 */
+	user_disable_single_step(p);
 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE);
 #ifdef TIF_SYSCALL_EMU
 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_EMU);