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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure to wake reaper
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:46:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830124617.GA17147@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo4fwyv8.fsf@xmission.com>

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> The thread_group_leader of any process may not be reaped until all of
> the other threads are dead.  All of the other threads of a
> multi-threaded process self reap when they exit.

Ah, I see.  Thanks.

Then your patch does sound like the safest solution.  Haven't
tested yet (hd failure stands in my way) though I can't see
how it could not fix the bug I was seeing.

-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 21:11 [PATCH] Make sure to wake reaper Serge Hallyn
2013-08-29 22:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30  0:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30  1:10   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-08-30  5:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30 12:46       ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2013-08-30 14:42   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-08-31  0:30     ` [REVIEW][PATCH] pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-08 17:56       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-08 18:01         ` free_pid() && PIDNS_HASH_ADDING Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-08 21:25           ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-09 15:15             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-09 17:54               ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-10 14:01                 ` [PATCH 0/1] pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-10 14:01                   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
     [not found]       ` <CALkWK0kSBrN-ZHG0CEWwvjYQ86ArJtDmbKqJR_6f3_ZTN6xJQQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-09  0:12         ` [REVIEW][PATCH] pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup Eric W. Biederman

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