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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-04-02 16:57:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:04:57 -0700
commit90bc8d8b1a38f1ab131a2399a202e1889db95de8 (patch)
tree97001737dc3c1c7fd364ddd995bcbfc1c27b4c3a /Documentation/kprobes.txt
parent6d7b2f5f9e88902b19f91d0c8a7ef58a5455f1a2 (diff)
do_wait: fix waiting for the group stop with the dead leader
do_wait(WSTOPPED) assumes that p->state must be == TASK_STOPPED, this is not true if the leader is already dead. Check SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED instead and use signal->group_exit_code. Trivial test-case: void *tfunc(void *arg) { pause(); return NULL; } int main(void) { pthread_t thr; pthread_create(&thr, NULL, tfunc, NULL); pthread_exit(NULL); return 0; } It doesn't react to ^Z (and then to ^C or ^\). The task is stopped, but bash can't see this. The bug is very old, and it was reported multiple times. This patch was sent more than a year ago (http://marc.info/?t=119713920000003) but it was ignored. This change also fixes other oddities (but not all) in this area. For example, before this patch: $ sleep 100 ^Z [1]+ Stopped sleep 100 $ strace -p `pidof sleep` Process 11442 attached - interrupt to quit strace hangs in do_wait(), because ->exit_code was already consumed by bash. After this patch, strace happily proceeds: --- SIGTSTP (Stopped) @ 0 (0) --- restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> To me, this looks much more "natural" and correct. Another example. Let's suppose we have the main thread M and sub-thread T, the process is stopped, and its parent did wait(WSTOPPED). Now we can ptrace T but not M. This looks at least strange to me. Imho, do_wait() should not confuse the per-thread ptrace stops with the per-process job control stops. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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