forget_original_parent: do not abuse child->ptrace_entry

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:02 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/5dfc80be73dd0c212d2e6dd8dbf5afa07e680bbe
Commit:     5dfc80be73dd0c212d2e6dd8dbf5afa07e680bbe
Parent:     39c626ae47c469abdfd30c6e42eff884931380d6
Author:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 2 16:58:19 2009 -0700
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 2 19:05:00 2009 -0700

    forget_original_parent: do not abuse child->ptrace_entry
    
    By discussion with Roland.
    
    - Use ->sibling instead of ->ptrace_entry to chain the need to be
      release_task'd childs. Nobody else can use ->sibling, this task
      is EXIT_DEAD and nobody can find it on its own list.
    
    - rename ptrace_dead to dead_childs.
    
    - Now that we don't have the "parallel" untrace code, change back
      reparent_thread() to return void, pass dead_childs as an argument.
    
    Actually, I don't understand why do we notify /sbin/init when we
    reparent a zombie, probably it is better to reap it unconditionally.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/childs/children/]
    Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
    Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/exit.c |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 506693d..029415d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -726,46 +726,6 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
 	mmput(mm);
 }
 
-/* Returns nonzero if the child should be released. */
-static int reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father)
-{
-	int dead;
-
-	if (p->pdeath_signal)
-		/* We already hold the tasklist_lock here.  */
-		group_send_sig_info(p->pdeath_signal, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, p);
-
-	list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
-
-	if (task_detached(p))
-		return 0;
-	/* If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to
-	 * notify anyone anything has happened.
-	 */
-	if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father))
-		return 0;
-
-	/* We don't want people slaying init.  */
-	p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
-
-	/* If we'd notified the old parent about this child's death,
-	 * also notify the new parent.
-	 */
-	dead = 0;
-	if (!p->ptrace &&
-	    p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) {
-		do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
-		if (task_detached(p)) {
-			p->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
-			dead = 1;
-		}
-	}
-
-	kill_orphaned_pgrp(p, father);
-
-	return dead;
-}
-
 /*
  * When we die, we re-parent all our children.
  * Try to give them to another thread in our thread
@@ -805,10 +765,46 @@ static struct task_struct *find_new_reaper(struct task_struct *father)
 	return pid_ns->child_reaper;
 }
 
+/*
+* Any that need to be release_task'd are put on the @dead list.
+ */
+static void reparent_thread(struct task_struct *father, struct task_struct *p,
+				struct list_head *dead)
+{
+	if (p->pdeath_signal)
+		group_send_sig_info(p->pdeath_signal, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, p);
+
+	list_move_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
+
+	if (task_detached(p))
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * If this is a threaded reparent there is no need to
+	 * notify anyone anything has happened.
+	 */
+	if (same_thread_group(p->real_parent, father))
+		return;
+
+	/* We don't want people slaying init.  */
+	p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
+
+	/* If it has exited notify the new parent about this child's death. */
+	if (!p->ptrace &&
+	    p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_empty(p)) {
+		do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
+		if (task_detached(p)) {
+			p->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
+			list_move_tail(&p->sibling, dead);
+		}
+	}
+
+	kill_orphaned_pgrp(p, father);
+}
+
 static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p, *n, *reaper;
-	LIST_HEAD(ptrace_dead);
+	LIST_HEAD(dead_children);
 
 	exit_ptrace(father);
 
@@ -821,15 +817,14 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father)
 			BUG_ON(p->ptrace);
 			p->parent = p->real_parent;
 		}
-		if (reparent_thread(p, father))
-			list_add(&p->ptrace_entry, &ptrace_dead);;
+		reparent_thread(father, p, &dead_children);
 	}
-
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&father->children));
 
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &ptrace_dead, ptrace_entry) {
-		list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry);
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &dead_children, sibling) {
+		list_del_init(&p->sibling);
 		release_task(p);
 	}
 }
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