commit a2a8474c3fff88d8dd52d05cb450563fb26fd26c
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Sat Sep 05 11:17:13 2009 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Sat Sep 05 11:30:42 2009 -0700
tree 455415da039a77627f47ed19318bb9c8aa17de4d
parent dd5d241ea955006122d76af88af87de73fec25b4

exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex

Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read
/proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since

	"mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec"
	04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d

commit in 2.6.31.

But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls
tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC.

The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex.  Even if we
remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(),
another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the
tracee resumes.

With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and
we do not hold it throughout, instead:

	- introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex
	  and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred.

	- install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(),
	  and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop().

	  or, if exec fails,

	  free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which
	  indicates install_exec_creds() was not called.

Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/compat.c

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 94502da..6d6f98f 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1485,20 +1485,15 @@
 	if (!bprm)
 		goto out_files;
 
-	retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
-	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&current->cred_guard_mutex))
+	retval = prepare_bprm_creds(bprm);
+	if (retval)
 		goto out_free;
-	current->in_execve = 1;
-
-	retval = -ENOMEM;
-	bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
-	if (!bprm->cred)
-		goto out_unlock;
 
 	retval = check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
 	if (retval < 0)
-		goto out_unlock;
+		goto out_free;
 	clear_in_exec = retval;
+	current->in_execve = 1;
 
 	file = open_exec(filename);
 	retval = PTR_ERR(file);
@@ -1547,7 +1542,6 @@
 	/* execve succeeded */
 	current->fs->in_exec = 0;
 	current->in_execve = 0;
-	mutex_unlock(&current->cred_guard_mutex);
 	acct_update_integrals(current);
 	free_bprm(bprm);
 	if (displaced)
@@ -1567,10 +1561,7 @@
 out_unmark:
 	if (clear_in_exec)
 		current->fs->in_exec = 0;
-
-out_unlock:
 	current->in_execve = 0;
-	mutex_unlock(&current->cred_guard_mutex);
 
 out_free:
 	free_bprm(bprm);