The patch titled ptrace: fix signal->wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ptrace-fix-signal-wait_chldexit-usage-in-task_clear_group_stop_trapping.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ptrace: fix signal->wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping() From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING waiting mechanism piggybacks on signal->wait_chldexit which is primarily used to implement waiting for wait(2) and friends. When do_wait() waits on signal->wait_chldexit, it uses a custom wake up callback, child_wait_callback(), which expects the child task which is waking up the parent to be passed in as @key to filter out spurious wakeups. task_clear_group_stop_trapping() used __wake_up_sync() which uses NULL @key causing the following oops if the parent was doing do_wait(). BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8 IP: [<ffffffff810499f9>] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80 PGD 1d899067 PUD 1e418067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/local_cpus CPU 2 Modules linked in: Pid: 4498, comm: test-continued Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6-work+ #32 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810499f9>] [<ffffffff810499f9>] child_wait_callback+0x29/0x80 RSP: 0000:ffff88001b889bf8 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001fab3af8 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff88001d91df20 RBP: ffff88001b889c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88001fb70550 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007f26ccae4700(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 000000001b8ac000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process test-continued (pid: 4498, threadinfo ffff88001b888000, task ffff88001fb88000) Stack: ffff88001b889c18 ffff88001fb70538 ffff88001b889c58 ffffffff810312f9 0000000000000001 0000000200000001 ffff88001b889c58 ffff88001fb70518 0000000000000002 0000000000000082 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810312f9>] __wake_up_common+0x59/0x90 [<ffffffff81035263>] __wake_up_sync_key+0x53/0x80 [<ffffffff810352a0>] __wake_up_sync+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff8105a984>] task_clear_jobctl_trapping+0x44/0x50 [<ffffffff8105bcbc>] ptrace_stop+0x7c/0x290 [<ffffffff8105c20a>] do_signal_stop+0x28a/0x2d0 [<ffffffff8105d27f>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x14f/0x5a0 [<ffffffff81002175>] do_signal+0x75/0x7b0 [<ffffffff8100292d>] do_notify_resume+0x5d/0x70 [<ffffffff8182e36a>] retint_signal+0x46/0x8c Code: 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 47 d8 83 f8 03 74 3a 85 c0 49 89 c8 75 23 89 c0 48 8b 5f e0 4c 8d 0c 40 31 c0 <4b> 39 9c c8 d8 02 00 00 74 1d 48 83 c4 08 5b c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 Fix it by using __wake_up_sync_key() and passing in the child as @key. I still think it's a mistake to piggyback on wait_chldexit for this. Given the relative low frequency of ptrace use, we would be much better off leaving already complex wait_chldexit alone and using bit waitqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~ptrace-fix-signal-wait_chldexit-usage-in-task_clear_group_stop_trapping kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~ptrace-fix-signal-wait_chldexit-usage-in-task_clear_group_stop_trapping +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ static void task_clear_group_stop_trappi { if (unlikely(task->group_stop & GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING)) { task->group_stop &= ~GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING; - __wake_up_sync(&task->parent->signal->wait_chldexit, - TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, 1); + __wake_up_sync_key(&task->parent->signal->wait_chldexit, + TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, 1, task); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch ptrace-fix-signal-wait_chldexit-usage-in-task_clear_group_stop_trapping.patch percpu_counter-change-return-value-and-add-comments.patch signal-introduce-retarget_shared_pending.patch signal-retarget_shared_pending-consider-shared-unblocked-signals-only.patch signal-retarget_shared_pending-optimize-while_each_thread-loop.patch signal-sigprocmask-narrow-the-scope-of-siglock.patch signal-sigprocmask-should-do-retarget_shared_pending.patch x86-signal-handle_signal-should-use-set_current_blocked.patch x86-signal-sys_rt_sigreturn-should-use-set_current_blocked.patch signal-cleanup-sys_rt_sigprocmask.patch scatterlist-new-helper-functions.patch scatterlist-new-helper-functions-update.patch scatterlist-new-helper-functions-update-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html