Re: [PATCH 6/6] clone4: Introduce new CLONE_FD flag to get task exit notification via fd

[Josh Triplett <josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/12, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >
> > @@ -598,7 +600,9 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
> >  	if (group_dead)
> >  		kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL);
> >  
> > -	if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
> > +	if (tsk->autoreap) {
> > +		autoreap = true;
> > +	} else if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) {
> >  		int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
> >  				thread_group_empty(tsk) &&
> >  				!ptrace_reparented(tsk) ?
> > @@ -612,8 +616,10 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	tsk->exit_state = autoreap ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
> > -	if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
> > +	if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) {
> >  		list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry, &dead);
> > +		clonefd_do_notify(tsk);
> > +	}
> 
> And even ignoring semantics issues, this change looks simply buggy anyway ;)
> 
> How can we do list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry) if it is traced by _another_ task?
> ->ptrace_entry is used by debugger.

That list_add was there before; I didn't change that.  I just added a
second line inside the EXIT_DEAD case, to call clonefd_do_notify (which
wakes up potential callers of poll/read).

- Josh Triplett