linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 10:04:08 -0700
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used
 thread_group_exited()

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 06:43:47PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> It was used by pidfd_poll() but now it has no callers.
> 
> If it finally finds a modular user we can revert this change, but note
> that the comment above this helper and the changelog in 38fd525a4c61
> ("exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll") are not accurate,
> thread_group_exited() won't return true if all other threads have passed
> exit_notify() and are zombies, it returns true only when all other threads
> are completely gone. Not to mention that it can only work if the task
> identified by @pid is a thread-group leader.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@...flix.com>