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authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-07-29 17:48:24 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-07-30 19:57:14 +0200
commit30b692d3b390c6fe78a5064be0c4bbd44a41be59 (patch)
treee50f2c2635beacd11be8b3e8d0c305781425ab27 /kernel
parent1caf7d50f46bd0388e38e653b146aa81700e8eb8 (diff)
exit: make setting exit_state consistent
Since commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state") we unconditionally set exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE before calling into do_notify_parent(). This was done to eliminate a race when querying exit_state in do_notify_pidfd(). Back then we decided to do the absolute minimal thing to fix this and not touch the rest of the exit_notify() function where exit_state is set. Since this fix has not caused any issues change the setting of exit_state to EXIT_DEAD in the autoreap case to account for the fact hat exit_state is set to EXIT_ZOMBIE unconditionally. This fix was planned but also explicitly requested in [1] and makes the whole code more consistent. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wigcxGFR2szue4wavJtH5cYTTeNES=toUBVGsmX0rzX+g@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 4436158a6d30..5b4a5dcce8f8 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -734,9 +734,10 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
autoreap = true;
}
- tsk->exit_state = autoreap ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
- if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+ if (autoreap) {
+ tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry, &dead);
+ }
/* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for group leader */
if (unlikely(tsk->signal->notify_count < 0))