Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for sparc64
Fixes correctly the race by using *_ti_thread_flag.
Race :
parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
(lock_kernel())
(ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
arch_ptrace()
ptrace_detach()
ptrace_disable(child);
clear_singlestep(child);
clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
(which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
process)
(put_task_struct(child))
(unlock_kernel())
And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
do_execve()
search_binary_handler()
load_elf_binary()
flush_old_exec()
flush_thread()
doing a non-atomic thread flag update
It applies on 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c
@@ -413,8 +413,13 @@ void flush_thread(void)
struct thread_info *t = current_thread_info();
struct mm_struct *mm;
- if (t->flags & _TIF_ABI_PENDING)
- t->flags ^= (_TIF_ABI_PENDING | _TIF_32BIT);
+ if (test_ti_thread_flag(t, TIF_ABI_PENDING)) {
+ clear_ti_thread_flag(t, TIF_ABI_PENDING);
+ if (test_ti_thread_flag(t, TIF_32BIT))
+ clear_ti_thread_flag(t, TIF_32BIT);
+ else
+ set_ti_thread_flag(t, TIF_32BIT);
+ }
mm = t->task->mm;
if (mm)
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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