linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] ia64: ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs: use ->sighand instead of ->signal to check the task is alive

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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:17:11 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs: use ->sighand
	instead of ->signal to check the task is alive

No functional changes.

It doesn't matter which pointer to check under tasklist to ensure the task
was not released, ->signal or ->sighand. But we are going to make ->signal
refcountable, change the code to use ->sighand.

Actually, this code doesn't need tasklist_lock and this check at all, it
should be converted to use lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

--- 6.29-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c~1_IA64_PTRACE	2008-12-02 17:12:35.000000000 +0100
+++ 6.29-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c	2009-02-03 23:55:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs (struct task
 	 */
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	if (child->signal) {
+	if (child->sighand) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
 		if (child->state == TASK_STOPPED &&
 		    !test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_RESTORE_RSE)) {
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs (struct task
 	 * job control stop, so that SIGCONT can be used to wake it up.
 	 */
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	if (child->signal) {
+	if (child->sighand) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
 		if (child->state == TASK_TRACED &&
 		    (child->signal->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED)) {

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