linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracehook: fix SA

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Message-Id: <20080820034229.43C7215449D@magilla.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT

The following changes since commit 1fca25427482387689fa27594c992a961d98768f:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/.../aegl/linux-2.6

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace.git tracehook

Roland McGrath (1):
      tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT

 kernel/signal.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Thanks,
Roland
---
[PATCH] tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT

I outwitted myself again in commit 2b2a1ff64afbadac842bbc58c5166962cf4f7664,
and broke the SA_NOCLDWAIT behavior so it leaks zombies.  This fixes it.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index c539f60..e661b01 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1338,6 +1338,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 	struct siginfo info;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct sighand_struct *psig;
+	int ret = sig;
 
 	BUG_ON(sig == -1);
 
@@ -1402,7 +1403,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 		 * is implementation-defined: we do (if you don't want
 		 * it, just use SIG_IGN instead).
 		 */
-		tsk->exit_signal = -1;
+		ret = tsk->exit_signal = -1;
 		if (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN)
 			sig = -1;
 	}
@@ -1411,7 +1412,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 	__wake_up_parent(tsk, tsk->parent);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags);
 
-	return sig;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk, int why)
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