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    ptrace: ptrace_resume() shouldn't wake up !TASK_TRACED thread · 0666fb51
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    
    
    It is not clear why ptrace_resume() does wake_up_process(). Unless the
    caller is PTRACE_KILL the tracee should be TASK_TRACED so we can use
    wake_up_state(__TASK_TRACED). If sys_ptrace() races with SIGKILL we do
    not need the extra and potentionally spurious wakeup.
    
    If the caller is PTRACE_KILL, wake_up_process() is even more wrong.
    The tracee can sleep in any state in any place, and if we have a buggy
    code which doesn't handle a spurious wakeup correctly PTRACE_KILL can
    be used to exploit it. For example:
    
    	int main(void)
    	{
    		int child, status;
    
    		child = fork();
    		if (!child) {
    			int ret;
    
    			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
    
    			ret = pause();
    			printf("pause: %d %m\n", ret);
    
    			return 0x23;
    		}
    
    		sleep(1);
    		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_KILL, child, 0,0) == 0);
    
    		assert(child == wait(&status));
    		printf("wait: %x\n", status);
    
    		return 0;
    	}
    
    prints "pause: -1 Unknown error 514", -ERESTARTNOHAND leaks to the
    userland. In this case sys_pause() is buggy as well and should be
    fixed.
    
    I do not know what was the original rationality behind PTRACE_KILL.
    The man page is simply wrong and afaics it was always wrong. Imho
    it should be deprecated, or may be it should do send_sig(SIGKILL)
    as Denys suggests, but in any case I do not think that the current
    behaviour was intentional.
    
    Note: there is another problem, ptrace_resume() changes ->exit_code
    and this can race with SIGKILL too. Eventually we should change ptrace
    to not use ->exit_code.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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