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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 1/2] ptrace_stop: fix the race with ptrace detach+attach
On 11/23, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:14:59PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > If the tracer went away (may_ptrace_stop() failed), ptrace_stop() drops tasklist
> > and then changes the ->state from TASK_TRACED to TASK_RUNNING.
> >
> > This can fool another tracer which attaches to us in between. Change the ->state
> > under tasklist_lock to ensure that ptrace_check_attach() can't wrongly succeed.
>
> ptrace_check_attach? Both do read_lock -- can run in parallel,

Yep.

> so how can it help?

read_lock prevents ptrace_attach(), so the new tracer can't attach
and then do ptrace_check_attach().

Oleg.

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