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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c index bbb8bc7c055..4b19d041063 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -587,8 +587,9 @@ thread_matches (struct task_struct *thread, unsigned long addr) static struct task_struct * find_thread_for_addr (struct task_struct *child, unsigned long addr) { - struct task_struct *g, *p; + struct task_struct *p; struct mm_struct *mm; + struct list_head *this, *next; int mm_users; if (!(mm = get_task_mm(child))) @@ -600,28 +601,21 @@ find_thread_for_addr (struct task_struct *child, unsigned long addr) goto out; /* not multi-threaded */ /* - * First, traverse the child's thread-list. Good for scalability with - * NPTL-threads. + * Traverse the current process' children list. Every task that + * one attaches to becomes a child. And it is only attached children + * of the debugger that are of interest (ptrace_check_attach checks + * for this). */ - p = child; - do { - if (thread_matches(p, addr)) { - child = p; - goto out; - } - if (mm_users-- <= 1) - goto out; - } while ((p = next_thread(p)) != child); - - do_each_thread(g, p) { - if (child->mm != mm) + list_for_each_safe(this, next, ¤t->children) { + p = list_entry(this, struct task_struct, sibling); + if (p->mm != mm) continue; - if (thread_matches(p, addr)) { child = p; goto out; } - } while_each_thread(g, p); + } + out: mmput(mm); return child; |