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authormjg <mjg@FreeBSD.org>2015-12-18 16:33:15 +0000
committermjg <mjg@FreeBSD.org>2015-12-18 16:33:15 +0000
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parentde5d4c25ab779a6fb9ecc67a45b7d63d1fd4b36e (diff)
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proc: fix a race which could result in dereference of bad p_pgrp pointer on fork
During fork p_starcopy - p_endcopy area of a process is populated with bcopy with only proc lock held. Another forking thread can find such a process and proceed to access p_pgrp included in said area. Fix the problem by moving the field outside. It is being properly assigned later. Reviewed by: kib Diagnosed by: kib Tested by: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen fabiankeil.de> MFC after: 10 days
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern/kern_proc.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
index 8a3b6ca..bbedd9b 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ proc_init(void *mem, int size, int flags)
TAILQ_INIT(&p->p_threads); /* all threads in proc */
EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE(process_init, p);
p->p_stats = pstats_alloc();
+ p->p_pgrp = NULL;
SDT_PROBE3(proc, , init, return, p, size, flags);
return (0);
}
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