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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mlock.c | 7 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index 0a5df5f82fb..5a4c23d8989 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -810,12 +810,16 @@ static void ptrace_bts_untrace(struct task_struct *child) static void ptrace_bts_detach(struct task_struct *child) { - if (unlikely(child->bts)) { - ds_release_bts(child->bts); - child->bts = NULL; - - ptrace_bts_free_buffer(child); - } + /* + * Ptrace_detach() races with ptrace_untrace() in case + * the child dies and is reaped by another thread. + * + * We only do the memory accounting at this point and + * leave the buffer deallocation and the bts tracer + * release to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called + * later on with tasklist_lock held. + */ + release_locked_buffer(child->bts_buffer, child->bts_size); } #else static inline void ptrace_bts_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) {} diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index e8ddc98b840..3d7fb44d7d7 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1305,5 +1305,6 @@ void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void); extern void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size); extern void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size); +extern void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size); #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */ diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index 028ec482fdd..2b57f7e6039 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size) return buffer; } -void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) +void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) { unsigned long pgsz = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT; @@ -667,6 +667,11 @@ void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) current->mm->locked_vm -= pgsz; up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); +} + +void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) +{ + release_locked_buffer(buffer, size); kfree(buffer); } |