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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] ptrace: Fix fork event messages across pid namespaces
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/02, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
>>
>> When tracing a process in another pid namespace, it's important for
>> fork event messages to contain the child's pid as seen from the
>> tracer's pid namespace, not the parent's. Otherwise, the tracer won't
>> be able to correlate the fork event with later SIGTRAP signals it
>> receives from the child.
>>
>> We still risk a race condition if a ptracer from a different pid
>> namespace attaches after we compute the pid_t value. However, sending
>> a bogus fork event message in this unlikely scenario is still a vast
>> improvement over the status quo where we always send bogus fork event
>> messages to debuggers in a different pid namespace than the forking
>> process.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Thanks!

> Some notes for potential future changes...
>
> - I do not not see any potential user of ptrace_event_pid() outside
> of fork.c, so perhaps this helper should not be exported.
>
> In fact I wouldn't mind if you send v5 which moves it into fork.c ;)

Like you mentioned, it's potentially used by fs/exec.c too, which I
was intending to send a followup patch for.

> - The usage of "trace" doesn't look very consistent after this patch...
> OK, probably I'll try to cleanup this later.
>
> - OTOH, calculating pid_nr in the namespace of ->parent can probably
> go into another simple (exported) helper. do_notify_parent_*() and
> exec_binprm() could use it, even they do not have the problem with
> task_active_pid_ns(parent) == NULL. Not sure.

I think do_notify_parent_*() are safe from task_active_pid_ns(parent)
== NULL because they're under tasklist_lock, but it looks like
exec_binprm() is theoretically racy (but would be fixed by converting
it to use ptrace_event_pid()).

> - I am thinking about another approach... Suppose that we change
> ptrace_attach() to nullify ->ptrace_message, as we already discussed
> this probably makes sense anyway.
>
> Now (ignoring CLONE_VFORK to simplify the discussion), do_fork() can
> do something like the following:
>
> ...
>
> if (trace)
> current->ptrace_message = calc_its_pid_in_parent_ns();
>
> wake_up_new_task(p);
>
> if (trace && current->ptrace_message && ptrace_event_enabled(trace))
> ptrace_notify(...);
>
> so that if we race with detach + attach we should likely see
> ->ptrace_message == 0 and report nothing as if the new debugger
> attached after do_fork().
>
> Not sure this is really possible (without additional complications),
> and of course we still can't close the race completely.
>
> But even if this can work and will not look too ugly, it would be
> better to do this on top of your simple patch.

Hm, that's an interesting idea. I'll think about it.

> Matthew, I see other emails from you, will try to reply tomorrow.

Thanks!


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