The patch titled tracehook_notify_death: use task_detached() helper has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tracehook_notify_death-use-task_detached-helper.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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_notify_death: use task_detached() helper From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Now that task_detached() is exported, change tracehook_notify_death() to use this helper, nobody else checks ->exit_signal == -1 by hand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/tracehook.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/tracehook.h~tracehook_notify_death-use-task_detached-helper include/linux/tracehook.h --- a/include/linux/tracehook.h~tracehook_notify_death-use-task_detached-helper +++ a/include/linux/tracehook.h @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static inline int tracehook_notify_jctl( static inline int tracehook_notify_death(struct task_struct *task, void **death_cookie, int group_dead) { - if (task->exit_signal == -1) + if (task_detached(task)) return task->ptrace ? SIGCHLD : DEATH_REAP; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch pipe_rdwr_fasync-fix-the-error-handling-to-prevent-the-leak-crash.patch get_mm_hiwater_xxx-trivial-s-define-inline.patch getrusage-fill-ru_maxrss-value.patch ptrace-kill-__ptrace_detach-fix-exit_state-check.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_exit-ignoring_children-path.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_exit-ignoring_children-pathpatch-fix.patch ptrace-reintroduce-__ptrace_detach-as-a-callee-of-ptrace_exit.patch ptrace-reintroduce-__ptrace_detach-as-a-callee-of-ptrace_exit-fix.patch ptrace-fix-possible-zombie-leak-on-ptrace_detach.patch reparent_thread-dont-call-kill_orphaned_pgrp-if-task_detached.patch reparent_thread-fix-the-is-it-traced-check.patch reparent_thread-fix-a-zombie-leak-if-sbin-init-ignores-sigchld.patch forget_original_parent-split-out-the-un-ptrace-part.patch forget_original_parent-do-not-abuse-child-ptrace_entry.patch forget_original_parent-do-not-abuse-child-ptrace_entry-fix.patch move-exit_ptrace-from-forget_original_parent-to-do_exit.patch reparent-untrace-do-nothing-if-no-childs-tracees.patch tracehook_notify_death-use-task_detached-helper.patch workqueue-avoid-recursion-in-run_workqueue.patch kthreads-move-sched-realeted-initialization-from-kthreadd-context.patch kthreads-simplify-the-startup-synchronization.patch kthreads-rework-kthread_stop.patch kthreads-simplify-migration_thread-exit-path.patch pids-document-task_pgrp-task_session-is-not-safe-without-tasklist-rcu.patch pids-document-task_pgrp-task_session-is-not-safe-without-tasklist-rcu-fix.patch pids-improve-get_task_pid-to-fix-the-unsafe-sys_wait4-task_pgrp.patch pids-refactor-vnr-nr_ns-helpers-to-make-them-safe.patch pids-kill-now-unused-signal_struct-__pgrp-__session-and-friends.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