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author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-12 17:09:06 +0400 |
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committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-12 17:09:06 +0400 |
commit | 239060b93bb30a4ad55f1ecaa512464a035cc5ba (patch) | |
tree | 77f79810e57d4fc24356eca0cd6db463e8994128 /kernel/ptrace.c | |
parent | 1408b15b98635a13bad2e2a50b3c2ae2ccdf625b (diff) | |
parent | e9203c988234aa512bd45ca32b52e21c7bbfc414 (diff) | |
download | linux-239060b93bb30a4ad55f1ecaa512464a035cc5ba.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'kbuild/rc-fixes' into kbuild/kconfig
We need to revert the temporary hack in 71ebc01, hence the merge.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 74a3d693c196..f34d798ef4a2 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -324,26 +324,32 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data) } /* - * Detach all tasks we were using ptrace on. + * Detach all tasks we were using ptrace on. Called with tasklist held + * for writing, and returns with it held too. But note it can release + * and reacquire the lock. */ void exit_ptrace(struct task_struct *tracer) { struct task_struct *p, *n; LIST_HEAD(ptrace_dead); - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + if (likely(list_empty(&tracer->ptraced))) + return; + list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &tracer->ptraced, ptrace_entry) { if (__ptrace_detach(tracer, p)) list_add(&p->ptrace_entry, &ptrace_dead); } - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&tracer->ptraced)); list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &ptrace_dead, ptrace_entry) { list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry); release_task(p); } + + write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); } int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst, int len) |