From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1njjNl-001viw-El for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:15:10 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:14:57 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] ptrace: Simplify the wait_task_inactive call in ptrace_check_attach Message-ID: <20220427151455.GE17421@redhat.com> References: <878rrrh32q.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> <20220426225211.308418-7-ebiederm@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220426225211.308418-7-ebiederm@xmission.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, mingo@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mgorman@suse.de, bigeasy@linutronix.de, Will Deacon , tj@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , inux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Kees Cook , Jann Horn On 04/26, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Asking wait_task_inactive to verify that tsk->__state == __TASK_TRACED > was needed to detect the when ptrace_stop would decide not to stop > after calling "set_special_state(TASK_TRACED)". With the recent > cleanups ptrace_stop will always stop after calling set_special_state. > > Take advatnage of this by no longer asking wait_task_inactive to > verify the state. If a bug is hit and wait_task_inactive does not > succeed warn and return -ESRCH. ACK, but I think that the changelog is wrong. We could do this right after may_ptrace_stop() has gone. This doesn't depend on the previous changes in this series. Oleg. _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um