linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/7] don't abuse task_struct.group

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Message-ID: <aXY_h8i78n6yD9JY@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:06:31 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
	Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@....com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] don't abuse task_struct.group_leader

Andrew, can you take these simple cleanups?

The patches do not depend on each other, this series just removes
the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary".

I am going to move ->group_leader from task_struct to signal_struct
or at least add the new task_group_leader() helper. So I will send
more tree-wide changes on top of this series.

Link to V1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aTV1KYdcDGvjXHos@redhat.com/

V2 doesn't differ, I only added the acks I got (thanks!).

7/7 was not reviewed, but looks really trivial.

Oleg.
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 drivers/android/binder.c                         |  9 ++++-----
 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm.c |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c           |  5 +----
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c         | 10 ----------
 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c               |  4 ++--
 net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c                     |  2 +-
 9 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)