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

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Message-ID: <20240206-erdloch-textzeilen-09e0019041a4@brauner>
Date: Tue,  6 Feb 2024 14:03:28 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()

On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:43:47 +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.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.pidfd branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.pidfd branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.pidfd

[1/1] pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/3cad8297df1b