kernel-ark/kernel
Linus Torvalds f358166a94 ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs
Eric Biederman points out that we can't take the task_lock while holding
tasklist_lock for writing, because another CPU that holds the task lock
might take an interrupt that then tries to take tasklist_lock for writing.

Which would be a nasty deadlock, with one CPU spinning forever in an
interrupt handler (although admittedly you need to really work at
triggering it ;)

Since the ptrace_attach() code is special and very unusual, just make it
be extra careful, and use trylock+repeat to avoid the possible deadlock.

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-11 11:08:49 -07:00
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irq [PATCH] request_irq(): remove warnings from irq probing 2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00
power [PATCH] off-by-1 in kernel/power/main.c 2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
audit.c [PATCH] More user space subject labels 2006-05-01 06:10:01 -04:00
audit.h [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2 2006-05-01 06:09:36 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] More user space subject labels 2006-05-01 06:10:01 -04:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance 2006-05-01 06:10:07 -04:00
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() 2006-05-01 06:06:13 -04:00
extable.c
fork.c [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() 2006-05-01 06:06:13 -04:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c
hrtimer.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
intermodule.c
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
Makefile
module.c
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
panic.c
params.c
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs 2006-05-11 11:08:49 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
rcutorture.c
relay.c
resource.c
sched.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
softirq.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
spinlock.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c
sysctl.c
time.c
timer.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
uid16.c
user.c
wait.c
workqueue.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00