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authorFrederic Weisbecker2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200
commit0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch)
tree94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /kernel/ptrace.c
parentMerge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff)
parentperf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff)
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h samples/Makefile Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 307c285af59e..23bd09cd042e 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -266,9 +266,10 @@ static int ignoring_children(struct sighand_struct *sigh)
* or self-reaping. Do notification now if it would have happened earlier.
* If it should reap itself, return true.
*
- * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do.
- * But if our normal children self-reap, then this child
- * was prevented by ptrace and we must reap it now.
+ * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do. But if our normal
+ * children self-reap, then this child was prevented by ptrace and we must
+ * reap it now, in that case we must also wake up sub-threads sleeping in
+ * do_wait().
*/
static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
{
@@ -278,8 +279,10 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
if (!task_detached(p) && thread_group_empty(p)) {
if (!same_thread_group(p->real_parent, tracer))
do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
- else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand))
+ else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand)) {
+ __wake_up_parent(p, tracer);
p->exit_signal = -1;
+ }
}
if (task_detached(p)) {
/* Mark it as in the process of being reaped. */