Remove the "Nasty, nasty" lock dance in ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme().
>From now task_lock() has nothing to do with ptrace at all.

With the recent changes nobody uses task_lock() to serialize with ptrace,
but in fact it was never needed and it was never used consistently.

However ptrace_attach() calls __ptrace_may_access() and needs task_lock()
to pin task->mm for get_dumpable(). But we can call __ptrace_may_access()
before we take tasklist_lock, ->cred_exec_mutex protects us against
do_execve() path which can change creds and MMF_DUMP* flags.

(ugly, but we can't use ptrace_may_access() because it hides the error
 code, so we have to take task_lock() and use __ptrace_may_access()).

Also, kill "if (!task->mm)" check. It buys nothing, we can attach to the
task right before it does exit_mm(). Instead, add PF_KTHREAD check to
prevent attaching to the kernel thread with a borrowed ->mm.

What we need is to make sure we can't attach after exit_notify(), check
task->exit_state.

And finally, move ptrace_traceme() up near ptrace_attach() to keep them
close to each other.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
---

 kernel/ptrace.c |  127 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)

--- PTRACE/kernel/ptrace.c~2_ATTACH     2009-05-03 19:30:15.000000000 +0200
+++ PTRACE/kernel/ptrace.c      2009-05-03 19:57:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -177,66 +177,79 @@ bool ptrace_may_access(struct task_struc
 int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task)
 {
        int retval;
-       unsigned long flags;
 
        audit_ptrace(task);
 
        retval = -EPERM;
+       if (unlikely(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+               goto out;
        if (same_thread_group(task, current))
                goto out;
-
-       /* Protect exec's credential calculations against our interference;
+       /*
+        * Protect exec's credential calculations against our interference;
         * SUID, SGID and LSM creds get determined differently under ptrace.
         */
        retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_exec_mutex);
-       if (retval  < 0)
+       if (retval < 0)
                goto out;
 
-       retval = -EPERM;
-repeat:
-       /*
-        * Nasty, nasty.
-        *
-        * We want to hold both the task-lock and the
-        * tasklist_lock for writing at the same time.
-        * But that's against the rules (tasklist_lock
-        * is taken for reading by interrupts on other
-        * cpu's that may have task_lock).
-        */
        task_lock(task);
-       if (!write_trylock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags)) {
-               task_unlock(task);
-               do {
-                       cpu_relax();
-               } while (!write_can_lock(&tasklist_lock));
-               goto repeat;
-       }
-
-       if (!task->mm)
-               goto bad;
-       /* the same process cannot be attached many times */
-       if (task->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
-               goto bad;
        retval = __ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH);
+       task_unlock(task);
        if (retval)
-               goto bad;
+               goto unlock_creds;
 
-       /* Go */
-       task->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
+       write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+       retval = -EPERM;
+       if (unlikely(task->exit_state))
+               goto unlock_tasklist;
+       if (task->ptrace)
+               goto unlock_tasklist;
+
+       task->ptrace = PT_PTRACED;
        if (capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
                task->ptrace |= PT_PTRACE_CAP;
 
        __ptrace_link(task, current);
 
        send_sig_info(SIGSTOP, SEND_SIG_FORCED, task);
-bad:
-       write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
-       task_unlock(task);
+unlock_tasklist:
+       write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+unlock_creds:
        mutex_unlock(&task->cred_exec_mutex);
 out:
        return retval;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ptrace_traceme  --  helper for PTRACE_TRACEME
+ *
+ * Performs checks and sets PT_PTRACED.
+ * Should be used by all ptrace implementations for PTRACE_TRACEME.
+ */
+int ptrace_traceme(void)
+{
+       int ret = -EPERM;
+
+       write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+       /* Are we already being traced? */
+       if (!current->ptrace) {
+               ret = security_ptrace_traceme(current->parent);
+               /*
+                * Check PF_EXITING to ensure ->real_parent has not passed
+                * exit_ptrace(). Otherwise we don't report the error but
+                * pretend ->real_parent untraces us right after return.
+                */
+               if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
+                       current->ptrace = PT_PTRACED;
+                       __ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
+               }
+       }
+       write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Called with irqs disabled, returns true if childs should reap themselves.
  */
@@ -574,52 +587,6 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *c
 }
 
 /**
- * ptrace_traceme  --  helper for PTRACE_TRACEME
- *
- * Performs checks and sets PT_PTRACED.
- * Should be used by all ptrace implementations for PTRACE_TRACEME.
- */
-int ptrace_traceme(void)
-{
-       int ret = -EPERM;
-
-       /*
-        * Are we already being traced?
-        */
-repeat:
-       task_lock(current);
-       if (!(current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)) {
-               /*
-                * See ptrace_attach() comments about the locking here.
-                */
-               unsigned long flags;
-               if (!write_trylock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags)) {
-                       task_unlock(current);
-                       do {
-                               cpu_relax();
-                       } while (!write_can_lock(&tasklist_lock));
-                       goto repeat;
-               }
-
-               ret = security_ptrace_traceme(current->parent);
-
-               /*
-                * Check PF_EXITING to ensure ->real_parent has not passed
-                * exit_ptrace(). Otherwise we don't report the error but
-                * pretend ->real_parent untraces us right after return.
-                */
-               if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
-                       current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
-                       __ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
-               }
-
-               write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
-       }
-       task_unlock(current);
-       return ret;
-}
-
-/**
  * ptrace_get_task_struct  --  grab a task struct reference for ptrace
  * @pid:       process id to grab a task_struct reference of
  *

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