linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] forget_original

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:53:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] forget_original_parent: cleanup ptrace pathes

> Yes. But since I am paranoid, can we move the callsite later? I mean,
> I'd prefer to make a separate (trivial) patch which moves it.

Absolutely.

> Agreed, and probably forget_original_parent() can check empty(->children) too.

Yes, that might optimize (vs what we've always done) a case so common that
it actually makes a bit of difference in the grand scale. :-)

> Yes, nobody should at least. Nobody can find this task on its own list.

I was more worried about presumptions of all the linkage being complete
until release_task.  But I don't see any actual thing to worry about.

> If you don't mind, I'd prefer to make these changes on top of [PATCH 3/4],
> reparent_thread-fix-a-zombie-leak-if-sbin-init-ignores-sigchld.patch
> (and this one should be dropped).
> 
> Because that patch fixes the bug and changes the behaviour, while the
> discussed changes are cleanups.

I don't object to that patch first (and it might be fine for -stable even)
as long as these cleanups are really going in soon so that ->ptrace_entry
abuse disappears quickly.


Thanks,
Roland
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