linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] will_become_orphaned_pgrp: partially fix insufficient ->exit

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Message-ID: <20080302184442.GA16368@tv-sign.ru>
Date:	Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:44:42 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] will_become_orphaned_pgrp: partially fix insufficient ->exit_state check

p->exit_state != 0 doesn't mean this process is dead, it may have sub-threads.
Change the code to use "p->exit_state && thread_group_empty(p)" instead.

Without this patch, ^Z doesn't deliver SIGTSTP to the foreground process if
the main thread has exited.

However, the new check is not perfect too. There is a window when exit_notify()
drops tasklist and before release_task(). Suppose that the last (non-leader)
thread exits. This means that entire group exits, but thread_group_empty() is
not true yet.

As Eric pointed out, is_global_init() is wrong as well, but I did not dare to
do other changes.

Just for the record, has_stopped_jobs() is absolutely wrong too. But we can't
fix it now, we should first fix SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED issues.

And. Even with this patch ^Z doesn't play well with the dead main thread. The
task is stopped correctly but do_wait(WSTOPPED) can't see it. This is another
unrelated issue, will be (hopefully) fixed separately.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- 25/kernel/exit.c~2_WBOP	2008-03-02 19:18:58.000000000 +0300
+++ 25/kernel/exit.c	2008-03-02 19:42:56.000000000 +0300
@@ -214,20 +214,19 @@ struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *
 static int will_become_orphaned_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp, struct task_struct *ignored_task)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
-	int ret = 1;

 	do_each_pid_task(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p) {
-		if (p == ignored_task
-				|| p->exit_state
-				|| is_global_init(p->real_parent))
+		if ((p == ignored_task) ||
+		    (p->exit_state && thread_group_empty(p)) ||
+		    is_global_init(p->real_parent))
 			continue;
+
 		if (task_pgrp(p->real_parent) != pgrp &&
-		    task_session(p->real_parent) == task_session(p)) {
-			ret = 0;
-			break;
-		}
+		    task_session(p->real_parent) == task_session(p))
+			return 0;
 	} while_each_pid_task(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p);
-	return ret;	/* (sighing) "Often!" */
+
+	return 1;
 }

 int is_current_pgrp_orphaned(void)

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