linux/arch/x86_64
Mathieu Desnoyers 303cd1535f [PATCH] Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for x86_64
Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for x86_64

Race :

parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
 (lock_kernel())
 (ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
 arch_ptrace()
   ptrace_detach()
     ptrace_disable(child);
       clear_singlestep(child);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
         (which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
	  process)
 (put_task_struct(child))
 (unlock_kernel())

And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
 do_execve()
   search_binary_handler()
     load_elf_binary()
       flush_old_exec()
         flush_thread()
           doing a non-atomic thread flag update

Signed-off-by: Rebecca Schultz <rschultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-18 11:35:08 -07:00
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boot [PATCH] x86-64: shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says 2006-11-14 16:57:46 +01:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
ia32 [PATCH] x86-64: wire up compat sched_rr_get_interval(2) 2007-03-16 21:07:36 +01:00
kernel [PATCH] Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for x86_64 2007-03-18 11:35:08 -07:00
lib Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2007-02-26 14:17:50 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-02-14 09:46:06 -08:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] mmconfig: fix unreachable_devices() 2007-02-13 13:26:20 +01:00
defconfig [PATCH] x86-64: Update defconfig 2007-03-16 21:07:35 +01:00
Kconfig [PATCH] time: x86_64: re-enable vsyscall support for x86_64 2007-02-16 08:14:00 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, x86_64 support 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Makefile Remove stack unwinder for now 2006-12-15 08:47:51 -08:00