ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall
The comment suggests that this usage is stale. There is no bkl in the
exec path so if there is a race lurking there, the bkl in ptrace is
not going to help in this regard.
Overview of the possibility of "accidental" races this bkl might
protect:
- ptrace_traceme() is protected against task removal and concurrent
read/write on current->ptrace as it locks write tasklist_lock.
- arch_ptrace_attach() is serialized by ptrace_traceme() against
concurrent PTRACE_TRACEME or PTRACE_ATTACH
- ptrace_attach() is protected the same way ptrace_traceme() and
in turn serializes arch_ptrace_attach()
- ptrace_check_attach() does its own well described serializing too.
There is no obvious race here.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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