Re: [RFC PATCH 11/12 v2] ptrace: mv task_struct->ptrace_message ptrace_ctx->message

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 05/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> ptrace_event() can use current->ptrace_ctx safely. If mask == 0 and we do
> not check task_ptrace() we are called from tracehook_report_clone_complete(),
> in this case trace == T means current was traced when it called do_fork().

Perhaps it is better to optimize out "mask != 0" check in ptrace_event().
This special !mask case is only needed for _report_clone(), we can use
mask == PT_PTRACED instead.

Oleg.

--- PTRACE/include/linux/ptrace.h~10_HOOK_COMPLETE	2009-05-28 11:19:33.000000000 +0200
+++ PTRACE/include/linux/ptrace.h	2009-05-28 11:49:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ int generic_ptrace_pokedata(struct task_
  */
 static inline int ptrace_event(int mask, int event, unsigned long message)
 {
-	if (mask && likely(!(task_ptrace(current) & mask)))
+	if (likely(!(task_ptrace(current) & mask)))
 		return 0;
 	current->ptrace_message = message;
 	ptrace_notify((event << 8) | SIGTRAP);
--- PTRACE/include/linux/tracehook.h~10_HOOK_COMPLETE	2009-05-28 08:41:11.000000000 +0200
+++ PTRACE/include/linux/tracehook.h	2009-05-28 11:50:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static inline void tracehook_report_clon
 						   struct task_struct *child)
 {
 	if (unlikely(trace))
-		ptrace_event(0, trace, pid);
+		ptrace_event(PT_PTRACED, trace, pid);
 }
 
 /**