linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread

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Message-ID: <20151015175136.GA28663@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:51:36 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child
	of kworker thread

On 10/15, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:32:17PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > But I would like to keep "we do not want to pollute current->children"
> > because this the goal of the next cleanups.
>
> I don't mind it, it's just that it's not obvious _why_ we don't want to
> pollute it.

Well, this connects to the "Note:" part of the changelog, I don't
this the comment can really explain this.

But note that this fix is not enough in the long term _unless_ we
ensure that another workueue callback can not call kernel_thread()
without CLONE_PARENT. And this is what I am going to do.

Nevermind, this is (almost) off-topic right now. Please review V2
I'll send in a minute, I tried to update the comment/changelog.

Oleg.

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