linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] job control: Job control stop notifications should always go to the real parent

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:12:16 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	roland@...hat.com, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com,
	vda.linux@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	indan@....nu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] job control: Job control stop notifications should
	always go to the real parent

On 03/08, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> The stopped notifications in do_signal_stop() and exit_signals() are
> always for the completion of job control.  The one in do_signal_stop()
> may be delivered to the ptracer if PTRACE_ATTACH races with
> notification and the one in exit_signals() if task exits while
> ptraced.
>
> In both cases, the notifications are meaningless and confusing to the
> ptracer as it never accesses the group stop state while the real
> parent would miss notifications for the events it is watching.
>
> Make sure these notifications always go to the real parent by calling
> do_notify_parent_cld_stop() with %false @for_ptrace.

Yes, looks correct.

Oleg.

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