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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@sigma-star.at>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	xenomai@lists.linux.dev, upstream@sigma-star.at,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: upstream+xenomai@sigma-star.at
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between RTDM task termination and xnthread_join
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:34:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5491679.p2sp48Hzj3@nailgun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310f7ea-9326-4200-b92f-17a828975328@siemens.com>

On Donnerstag, 29. Jänner 2026 11:29 Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Hmm, for userspace I'd expect that Linux frees the task struct only after
> > the parent fetched the exit code? So, after zombie state.
> > 
> 
> But Linux has no idea if we are still holding an xnthread struct reference.

Yes, but Linux does only free the task struct, not xnthread struct.
xnthread struct (being rtdm_task_t) ist statically allocated.

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-29 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-27 21:39 [PATCH] Fix race between RTDM task termination and xnthread_join Richard Weinberger
2026-01-29  7:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2026-01-29  8:36   ` Richard Weinberger
2026-01-29  9:57     ` Jan Kiszka
2026-01-29 10:09       ` Richard Weinberger
2026-01-29 10:29         ` Jan Kiszka
2026-01-29 10:34           ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2026-02-04 17:28             ` Jan Kiszka
2026-02-04 17:43               ` Richard Weinberger
2026-02-04 17:45                 ` Jan Kiszka

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