ptrace: fix possible zombie leak on PTRACE_DETACH

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:02 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/4576145c1ecdaaea9ef8976a48335206aa1ebf91
Commit:     4576145c1ecdaaea9ef8976a48335206aa1ebf91
Parent:     b1b4c6799fb59e710454bfe0ab477cb8523a8667
Author:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 2 16:58:14 2009 -0700
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 2 19:04:59 2009 -0700

    ptrace: fix possible zombie leak on PTRACE_DETACH
    
    When ptrace_detach() takes tasklist, the tracee can be SIGKILL'ed.  If it
    has already passed exit_notify() we can leak a zombie, because a) ptracing
    disables the auto-reaping logic, and b) ->real_parent was not notified
    about the child's death.
    
    ptrace_detach() should follow the ptrace_exit's logic, change the code
    accordingly.
    
    Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
    Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/ptrace.h |    1 +
 kernel/ptrace.c        |    9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index 98b93ca..1a2b0cb 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void ptrace_notify(int exit_code);
 extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
 			  struct task_struct *new_parent);
 extern void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child);
+extern int __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p);
 extern void ptrace_fork(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long clone_flags);
 #define PTRACE_MODE_READ   1
 #define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH 2
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index f62a568..ee553b6 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ out:
 
 int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
 {
+	int dead = 0;
+
 	if (!valid_signal(data))
 		return -EIO;
 
@@ -244,18 +246,21 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
 	ptrace_disable(child);
 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE);
 
-	/* protect against de_thread()->release_task() */
 	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	/* protect against de_thread()->release_task() */
 	if (child->ptrace) {
 		child->exit_code = data;
 
-		__ptrace_unlink(child);
+		dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child);
 
 		if (!child->exit_state)
 			wake_up_process(child);
 	}
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
+	if (unlikely(dead))
+		release_task(child);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
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