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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 9a34bd80a745..c8e0e050a36a 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -456,8 +456,6 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p) static int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data) { - bool dead = false; - if (!valid_signal(data)) return -EIO; @@ -467,18 +465,19 @@ static int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data) write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); /* - * This child can be already killed. Make sure de_thread() or - * our sub-thread doing do_wait() didn't do release_task() yet. + * We rely on ptrace_freeze_traced(). It can't be killed and + * untraced by another thread, it can't be a zombie. */ - if (child->ptrace) { - child->exit_code = data; - dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child); - } + WARN_ON(!child->ptrace || child->exit_state); + /* + * tasklist_lock avoids the race with wait_task_stopped(), see + * the comment in ptrace_resume(). + */ + child->exit_code = data; + __ptrace_detach(current, child); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); proc_ptrace_connector(child, PTRACE_DETACH); - if (unlikely(dead)) - release_task(child); return 0; } |