Zombies aren't migrated. However, return value of a migration write may suggest a zombie process was migrated and causing confusion about lack of cgroup.events:populated between origin and target cgroups (e.g. target cgroup rmdir). Notify the users about no effect of their action by a return value. (update_dfl_csses migration of zombies still silently passes since it is not meant to be user-visible migration anyway.) Suggested-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Reasons for RFC: 1) Some users may notice the change, 2) EINVAL vs ESCHR, 3) add a selftest? diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 625d7483951c..306547dd7b76 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -2968,7 +2968,8 @@ struct task_struct *cgroup_procs_write_start(char *buf, bool threadgroup, * become trapped in a cpuset, or RT kthread may be born in a * cgroup with no rt_runtime allocated. Just say no. */ - if (tsk->no_cgroup_migration || (tsk->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY)) { + if (tsk->no_cgroup_migration || (tsk->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY) || + !atomic_read(&tsk->signal->live)) { tsk = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); goto out_unlock_threadgroup; } -- 2.40.1