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Subject[PATCH 0/5] exit: reparent zombie fix + cleanups/optimizations
Hello.

On 11/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> I tried to optimize the usage of tasklist_lock in exit_notify() paths
> but found the bug which should be fixed first: the EXIT_DEAD setting
> in reparent_leader() can break the task_ppid_nr_ns()-like code and
> ptrace_parent().
>
> I am still thinking about the "right" fix, but whatever we do we need
> to cleanup these users, probably before the fix.

Yes, we need to cleanup these users but lets fix the bug first. See the
changelog in 2/5.

Plus cleanups + initial (micro)optimizations, more to come.

Oleg.

include/linux/ptrace.h | 2 +-
kernel/exit.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
kernel/ptrace.c | 23 ++------------------
kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++-
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)



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