On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 05:48:08AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:25:25PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The beginning of do_exit has become cluttered and difficult to read as > > it is filled with checks to handle things that can only happen when > > the kernel is operating improperly. > > > > Now that we have a dedicated function for cleaning up a task when the > > kernel is operating improperly move the checks there. > > Umm... I would probably take profile_task_exit() crap out before that > point. > 1) the damn thing is dead - nothing registers notifiers there > 2) blocking_notifier_call_chain() is not a nice thing to do on oops... > > I'll post a patch ripping the dead parts of kernel/profile.c out tomorrow > morning (there's also profile_handoff_task(), equally useless these days > and complicating things for __put_task_struct()). Argh... OK, so your subsequent series had pretty much the same thing. My apologies - still digging myself out from mail pile that had accumulated over two months ;-/
