2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov commit 6d69cb87f05eef3b02370b2f7bae608ad2301a00 upstream. ignoring_children() takes parent->sighand->siglock and checks k_sigaction[SIGCHLD] atomically. But this buys nothing, we can't get the "really" wrong result even if we race with sigaction(SIGCHLD). If we read the "stale" sa_handler/sa_flags we can pretend it was changed right after the check. Remove spin_lock(->siglock), and kill "int ign" which caches the result of ignoring_children() which becomes rather trivial. Perhaps it makes sense to export this helper, do_notify_parent() can use it too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/exit.c | 25 ++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -703,19 +703,15 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * } /* - * Return nonzero if @parent's children should reap themselves. - * - * Called with write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) held. + * Called with irqs disabled, returns true if childs should reap themselves. */ -static int ignoring_children(struct task_struct *parent) +static int ignoring_children(struct sighand_struct *sigh) { int ret; - struct sighand_struct *psig = parent->sighand; - unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&psig->siglock, flags); - ret = (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN || - (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_flags & SA_NOCLDWAIT)); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags); + spin_lock(&sigh->siglock); + ret = (sigh->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN) || + (sigh->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_flags & SA_NOCLDWAIT); + spin_unlock(&sigh->siglock); return ret; } @@ -728,7 +724,6 @@ static int ignoring_children(struct task static void ptrace_exit(struct task_struct *parent, struct list_head *dead) { struct task_struct *p, *n; - int ign = -1; list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &parent->ptraced, ptrace_entry) { __ptrace_unlink(p); @@ -750,12 +745,8 @@ static void ptrace_exit(struct task_stru if (!task_detached(p) && thread_group_empty(p)) { if (!same_thread_group(p->real_parent, parent)) do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal); - else { - if (ign < 0) - ign = ignoring_children(parent); - if (ign) - p->exit_signal = -1; - } + else if (ignoring_children(parent->sighand)) + p->exit_signal = -1; } if (task_detached(p)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/