From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 09:24:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi0jrKv9x6vJ9FDgTrSUbdbZYDX-79T-E87C48MGSn5=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjhAvv6s_7OVeZJiHaY7bBrHyiPTkSpq-TLr6qxYqxUUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:15 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> may_ptrace_stop() is supposed to stop the blocking exactly so that it
> doesn't deadlock.
>
> I wonder why that doesn't work..
>
> [ Goes and look ]
>
> Oh. I see.
>
> That ptrace_may_stop() only ever considered core-dumping, not execve().
>
> But if _that_ is the reason for the deadlock, then it's trivially fixed.
So maybe may_ptrace_stop() should just do something like this
(ENTIRELY UNTESTED):
struct task_struct *me = current, *parent = me->parent;
if (!likely(me->ptrace))
return false;
/* If the parent is exiting or core-dumping, it's not
listening to our signals */
if (parent->signal->flags & (SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT | SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP))
return false;
/* if the parent is going through a execve(), it's not listening */
if (parent->signal->group_exit_task)
return false;
return true;
instead of the fairly ad-hoc tests for core-dumping.
The above is hand-wavy - I didn't think a lot about locking.
may_ptrace_stop() is already called under the tasklist_lock, so the
parent won't change, but maybe it should take the signal lock?
So the above very much is *not* meant to be a "do it like this", more
of a "this direction, maybe"?
The existing code is definitely broken. It special-cases core-dumping
probably simply because that's the only case people had realized, and
not thought of the execve() thing.
Linus
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2020-04-02 19:04 ` [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 19:31 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-02 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 20:59 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-02 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 23:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-02 23:42 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-02 23:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-02 23:49 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-02 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 23:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-03 0:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 1:29 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] exec_update_mutex related cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 1:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] binfmt: Move install_exec_creds after setup_new_exec to match binfmt_elf Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 15:58 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 16:11 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-08 19:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: Make unlocking exec_update_mutex explict Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 16:02 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 16:17 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-07 16:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 1:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Rename the flag called_exec_mmap point_of_no_return Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 16:03 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 16:21 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-07 16:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] exec_update_mutex related cleanups Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-03 5:09 ` [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1 Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-03 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-03 20:41 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-03 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-03 23:16 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-03 23:23 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-04 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-04 2:02 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-04 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-04 6:34 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-05 6:34 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-05 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-05 2:42 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-05 3:35 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-05 3:45 ` Waiman Long
2020-04-06 13:13 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-04 4:23 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-06 22:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-07 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-07 20:29 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-07 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-08 15:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-08 15:21 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-08 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 14:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-09 15:15 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-04-09 17:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-09 17:17 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 17:46 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 19:57 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 20:36 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-09 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 23:52 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-10 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-10 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-11 4:07 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-11 18:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-11 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-11 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-11 19:15 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-11 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-11 21:16 ` Bernd Edlinger
[not found] ` <CAHk-=wgWHkBzFazWJj57emHPd3Dg9SZHaZqoO7-AD+UbBTJgig@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-11 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-12 6:01 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-12 19:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-12 20:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-28 2:56 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-28 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-28 19:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-28 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-28 21:06 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-28 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-28 21:53 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-28 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-28 23:36 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-29 18:33 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-29 19:23 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-29 19:26 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 20:19 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-29 21:06 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-29 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-29 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-29 23:59 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-30 1:08 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-30 2:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 3:00 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-30 3:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 3:41 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-30 3:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 13:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 2:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 13:39 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-30 13:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-30 14:29 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-30 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-02 4:11 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-09 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09 20:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-09 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 23:02 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-02 23:22 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-03 7:38 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-03 16:00 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-03 15:09 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-03 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-03 16:36 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-04 5:43 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-04 5:48 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-06 6:41 ` Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-10 13:03 ` [GIT PULL] proc fix " Eric W. Biederman
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