Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1

Bernd Edlinger
2020-04-11T04:08:00Z

On 4/10/20 2:32 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:30 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of trying to change how notify_count gets decremented, we
>> could do something like the attached patch: wait for it to go down to
>> zero, yes, but go back and re-check until you don't have to wait any
>> more. That should fix the underflow situation. The comment says it
>> all.
>
> The "attached" patch wasn't.
>
> Blush.
>
> Here it is. Still entirely and utterly untested.
>

Okay, if this works, please do not only make sure that our own test case
works, but also that the strace-5.5 test suite does not regress.

So currently at least one of the test cases was failing
before my totally crazy patch.
After my patch exactly the same test was failing.

So please make sure you don't break their tests.

Thanks
Bernd.

> Linus
>