Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:41:35 +0100 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] ptrace: fix possible zombie leak on PTRACE_DETACH |
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On 02/04, Roland McGrath wrote: > > ACK on the change, though looks different if you put __ptrace_detach in > ptrace.c with the earliar patch, as I suggest. Also, I think this warrants > a comment for the release_task call mentioning briefly what it means: > > /* > * The flag means __ptrace_detach() determined that this child > * was a zombie that should have been auto-reaped already. > * Don't leak it. > */ > if (unlikely(dead)) > release_task(child);
OK, will add this to the cleanup patch too.
Oleg.
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