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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2011-06-22 23:10:11 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2011-06-27 20:30:10 +0200
commitd4f7c511c1c2a67eb287987cf1ce9554149030e6 (patch)
tree0756b300e8f558a923782a9ccea9a8b532e39159 /kernel
parentkill task_detached() (diff)
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do not change dead_task->exit_signal
__ptrace_detach() and do_notify_parent() set task->exit_signal = -1 to mark the task dead. This is no longer needed, nobody checks exit_signal to detect the EXIT_DEAD task. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 66a28bd71ef6..d7ccc79454f5 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
dead = do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand)) {
__wake_up_parent(p, tracer);
- p->exit_signal = -1;
dead = true;
}
}
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index d52e82cd62bb..4c4ad34caf77 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,6 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
* it, just use SIG_IGN instead).
*/
autoreap = true;
- tsk->exit_signal = -1;
if (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN)
sig = 0;
}