Patch "tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tracing-fix-syscall_-regfunc-vs-copy_process-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 4af4206be2bd1933cae20c2b6fb2058dbc887f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:58:54 +0200
Subject: tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 4af4206be2bd1933cae20c2b6fb2058dbc887f7c upstream.

syscall_regfunc() and syscall_unregfunc() should set/clear
TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT system-wide, but do_each_thread() can race
with copy_process() and miss the new child which was not added to
the process/thread lists yet.

Change copy_process() to update the child's TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT
under tasklist.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140413185854.GB20668@xxxxxxxxxx

Fixes: a871bd33a6c0 "tracing: Add syscall tracepoints"
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 include/trace/syscall.h |   15 +++++++++++++++
 kernel/fork.c           |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

--- a/include/trace/syscall.h
+++ b/include/trace/syscall.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace_event.h>
+#include <linux/thread_info.h>
 
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
@@ -54,4 +55,18 @@ int perf_sysexit_enable(struct ftrace_ev
 void perf_sysexit_disable(struct ftrace_event_call *call);
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS)
+static inline void syscall_tracepoint_update(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
+		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+	else
+		clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+}
+#else
+static inline void syscall_tracepoint_update(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_SYSCALL_H */
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
 
 	total_forks++;
 	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	syscall_tracepoint_update(p);
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
 	proc_fork_connector(p);
 	cgroup_post_fork(p);
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/tracing-fix-syscall_-regfunc-vs-copy_process-race.patch
queue-3.4/ptrace-x86-force-iret-path-after-a-ptrace_stop.patch
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