The patch titled tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tracehook-fix-sa_nocldwait.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> I outwitted myself again in commit 2b2a1ff64afbadac842bbc58c5166962cf4f7664, and broke the SA_NOCLDWAIT behavior so it leaks zombies. This fixes it. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~tracehook-fix-sa_nocldwait kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~tracehook-fix-sa_nocldwait +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -1338,6 +1338,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct struct siginfo info; unsigned long flags; struct sighand_struct *psig; + int ret = sig; BUG_ON(sig == -1); @@ -1402,7 +1403,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct * is implementation-defined: we do (if you don't want * it, just use SIG_IGN instead). */ - tsk->exit_signal = -1; + ret = tsk->exit_signal = -1; if (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN) sig = -1; } @@ -1411,7 +1412,7 @@ int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct __wake_up_parent(tsk, tsk->parent); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags); - return sig; + return ret; } static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk, int why) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roland@xxxxxxxxxx are tracehook-fix-sa_nocldwait.patch linux-next.patch x86-tracehook-config_have_arch_tracehook.patch sched-do_wait_for_common-use-signal_pending_state.patch wait_task_inactive-dont-consider-task-nivcsw.patch wait_task_inactive-improve-the-returned-value-for-nvcsw-==-0.patch fix-setpriorityprio_pgrp-thread-iterator-breakage.patch posix-timers-dont-switch-to-group_leader-if-it_process-dies.patch posix-timers-always-do-get_task_structtimer-it_process.patch posix-timers-sys_timer_create-remove-the-buggy-pf_exiting-check.patch posix-timers-sys_timer_create-simplify-and-s-tasklist-rcu.patch posix-timers-move-the-initialization-of-timer-sigq-from-send-to-create-path.patch posix-timers-sys_timer_create-cleanup-the-error-handling.patch posix-timers-kill-it_sigev_signo-and-it_sigev_value.patch posix-timers-lock_timer-kill-the-bogus-it_id-check.patch posix-timers-lock_timer-make-it-readable.patch make-ptrace_untrace-static.patch coredump-format_corename-dont-append-%pid-if-multi-threaded.patch kthread_bind-use-wait_task_inactivetask_uninterruptible.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html