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From: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wait_task_zombie plus WNOWAIT question
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:10:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d48kh4u4.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090701135544.GA24374@redhat.com>

At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:55:44 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> On 07/01, Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
> >
> > I'm working on (sigh) next version of wait_task_* cleanups and stuck
> > in wait_task_zombie. I'm trying to move put_user(stat, wo->wo_stat)
> > code from all wait_task_* functions to common place, but
> > wait_task_zombie does not fill wo_stat if WNOWAIT flag is set
> 
> Only waitid() can use WNOWAIT, and in this case ->wo_stat == NULL.
> 
> > and does
> > it w/o that flag. Is it done so by design, or I can make
> > user-visible change and add put_user in WNOWAIT path?
> 
> Just check do not do put_user(->wo_stat) if it is NULL in do_wait
> pathes.

Got it! Thanks, Oleg!

-- 
wbr, Vitaly

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-01 13:41 wait_task_zombie plus WNOWAIT question Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-07-01 13:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-01 14:10   ` Vitaly Mayatskikh [this message]

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