From 4576145c1ecdaaea9ef8976a48335206aa1ebf91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:14 -0700 Subject: ptrace: fix possible zombie leak on PTRACE_DETACH When ptrace_detach() takes tasklist, the tracee can be SIGKILL'ed. If it has already passed exit_notify() we can leak a zombie, because a) ptracing disables the auto-reaping logic, and b) ->real_parent was not notified about the child's death. ptrace_detach() should follow the ptrace_exit's logic, change the code accordingly. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Roland McGrath Tested-by: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/ptrace.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/ptrace.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index 98b93ca4db06..1a2b0cb55535 100644 --- a/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void ptrace_notify(int exit_code); extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent); extern void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child); +extern int __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p); extern void ptrace_fork(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long clone_flags); #define PTRACE_MODE_READ 1 #define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH 2 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522