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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-04-08 00:38:43 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-08 01:36:05 +0200
commitb436069059fede30ca31d4bf439cc86436ff5b1d (patch)
treed5d6875cdd317445cb1e84883b5a078bf8cf1451 /kernel/exit.c
parentwait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition (diff)
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wait: use EXIT_TRACE only if thread_group_leader(zombie)
wait_task_zombie() always uses EXIT_TRACE/ptrace_unlink() if ptrace_reparented(). This is suboptimal and a bit confusing: we do not need do_notify_parent(p) if !thread_group_leader(p) and in this case we also do not need ptrace_unlink(), we can rely on ptrace_release_task(). Change wait_task_zombie() to check thread_group_leader() along with ptrace_reparented() and simplify the final p->exit_state transition. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 022a0ff17318..4773ed990907 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
/*
* Move the task's state to DEAD/TRACE, only one thread can do this.
*/
- state = traced ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD;
+ state = traced && thread_group_leader(p) ? EXIT_TRACE : EXIT_DEAD;
if (cmpxchg(&p->exit_state, EXIT_ZOMBIE, state) != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
return 0;
/*
@@ -1140,18 +1140,15 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
if (!retval)
retval = pid;
- if (traced) {
+ if (state == EXIT_TRACE) {
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
/* We dropped tasklist, ptracer could die and untrace */
ptrace_unlink(p);
- /*
- * If this is not a sub-thread, notify the parent.
- * If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now.
- */
- state = EXIT_DEAD;
- if (thread_group_leader(p) &&
- !do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal))
- state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
+
+ /* If parent wants a zombie, don't release it now */
+ state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
+ if (do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal))
+ state = EXIT_DEAD;
p->exit_state = state;
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
}