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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	vda.linux@googlemail.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
	pedro@codesourcery.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group()
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:08:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110626210823.GC16293@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110625134350.GU30101@htj.dyndns.org>

On 06/25, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> This patch involves very subtle behavior change when the tracer is
> multi-threaded && real parent of the tracee.  Slightly worrisome

Agreed. That is why, despite the fact the change itself is trivial,
the changelog is so long.

I am almost sure nobody will ever notice this change, but still this
is the user-visible change.

> but
> it is a bug fix and extremely fringe, so...

Agreed. Even if very minor, this looks like a bug, imho makes sense
to fix.

>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-26 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 15:33 [PATCH 0/3] ptrace_reparented fixes/cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-24 15:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group() Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-25 13:43   ` Tejun Heo
2011-06-26 21:08     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-06-24 15:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented() Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-25 13:49   ` Tejun Heo
2011-06-24 15:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/ Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-25 13:52   ` Tejun Heo

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