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    ptrace: fix fork event messages across pid namespaces · 4e52365f
    Matthew Dempsky authored
    
    
    When tracing a process in another pid namespace, it's important for fork
    event messages to contain the child's pid as seen from the tracer's pid
    namespace, not the parent's.  Otherwise, the tracer won't be able to
    correlate the fork event with later SIGTRAP signals it receives from the
    child.
    
    We still risk a race condition if a ptracer from a different pid
    namespace attaches after we compute the pid_t value.  However, sending a
    bogus fork event message in this unlikely scenario is still a vast
    improvement over the status quo where we always send bogus fork event
    messages to debuggers in a different pid namespace than the forking
    process.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@chromium.org>
    Cc: Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@chromium.org>
    Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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