From 9f339e7028e2855717af3193c938f9960ad13b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Metzger Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:10:27 +0100 Subject: x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/mm.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index e8ddc98b8405..3d7fb44d7d7e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1305,5 +1305,6 @@ void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void); extern void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size); extern void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size); +extern void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size); #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b