Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2015-03-14

Re: [PATCH 6/6] clone4: Introduce new CLONE_FD flag to get task exit notification via fd

From: Oleg Nesterov <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-14 14:35:58
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On 03/12, Josh Triplett wrote:
quoted hunk
@@ -598,7 +600,9 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 	if (group_dead)
 		kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL);
 
-	if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
+	if (tsk->autoreap) {
+		autoreap = true;
+	} else if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
 		int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
 				thread_group_empty(tsk) &&
 				!ptrace_reparented(tsk) ?
@@ -612,8 +616,10 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 	}
 
 	tsk->exit_state = autoreap ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
-	if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+	if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) {
 		list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry, &dead);
+		clonefd_do_notify(tsk);
+	}
And even ignoring semantics issues, this change looks simply buggy anyway ;)

How can we do list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry) if it is traced by _another_ task?
->ptrace_entry is used by debugger.

Oleg.
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