linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] job control: introduce JOBCTL_TRAP

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 18:57:11 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	jan.kratochvil@...hat.com, vda.linux@...glemail.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, indan@....nu, bdonlan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] job control: introduce JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and use
	it for group stop trap

On 05/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> So far I can't really understand why do we have both JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and
> and JOBCTL_TRAPPING... Please ignore, I didn't read other patches yet.

OK, SEIZE sets JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP.

> Hmm. And afaics there is a bug in do_signal_stop(), after
> "[PATCH 6/9] job control: make task_clear_jobctl_pending() clear TRAPPING automatically"
> ->jobctl &= ~JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK is no longer safe. We can clear _TRAPPING
> without wakeup.

And this also affects ptrace_attach(PTRACE_SEIZE), TRAP_STOP is cleared
as well.

Oleg.

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