* tracehook_finish_clone - new child created and being attached
* @child: new child task
* @clone_flags: %CLONE_* flags from clone/fork/vfork system call
- * @trace: return value from tracehook_clone_prepare()
+ * @trace: return value from tracehook_prepare_clone()
*
* This is called immediately after adding @child to its parent's children list.
* The @trace value is that returned by tracehook_prepare_clone().
/**
* tracehook_report_clone - in parent, new child is about to start running
- * @trace: return value from tracehook_clone_prepare()
+ * @trace: return value from tracehook_prepare_clone()
* @regs: parent's user register state
* @clone_flags: flags from parent's system call
* @pid: new child's PID in the parent's namespace
* @child: new child task
*
- * Called after a child is set up, but before it has been started running.
- * The @trace value is that returned by tracehook_clone_prepare().
- * This is not a good place to block, because the child has not started yet.
- * Suspend the child here if desired, and block in tracehook_clone_complete().
- * This must prevent the child from self-reaping if tracehook_clone_complete()
- * uses the @child pointer; otherwise it might have died and been released by
- * the time tracehook_report_clone_complete() is called.
+ * Called after a child is set up, but before it has been started
+ * running. @trace is the value returned by tracehook_prepare_clone().
+ * This is not a good place to block, because the child has not started
+ * yet. Suspend the child here if desired, and then block in
+ * tracehook_report_clone_complete(). This must prevent the child from
+ * self-reaping if tracehook_report_clone_complete() uses the @child
+ * pointer; otherwise it might have died and been released by the time
+ * tracehook_report_report_clone_complete() is called.
*
* Called with no locks held, but the child cannot run until this returns.
*/
unsigned long clone_flags,
pid_t pid, struct task_struct *child)
{
- if (unlikely(trace)) {
+ if (unlikely(trace) || unlikely(clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE)) {
/*
* The child starts up with an immediate SIGSTOP.
*/
/**
* tracehook_report_clone_complete - new child is running
- * @trace: return value from tracehook_clone_prepare()
+ * @trace: return value from tracehook_prepare_clone()
* @regs: parent's user register state
* @clone_flags: flags from parent's system call
* @pid: new child's PID in the parent's namespace
}
/**
- * tracehook_finish_release_task - task is being reaped, clean up tracing
+ * tracehook_finish_release_task - final tracing clean-up
* @task: task in %EXIT_DEAD state
*
* This is called in release_task() when @task is being in the middle of
return notify || (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED);
}
+#define DEATH_REAP -1
+#define DEATH_DELAYED_GROUP_LEADER -2
+
/**
* tracehook_notify_death - task is dead, ready to notify parent
* @task: @current task now exiting
* @death_cookie: value to pass to tracehook_report_death()
* @group_dead: nonzero if this was the last thread in the group to die
*
- * Return the signal number to send our parent with do_notify_parent(), or
- * zero to send no signal and leave a zombie, or -1 to self-reap right now.
+ * A return value >= 0 means call do_notify_parent() with that signal
+ * number. Negative return value can be %DEATH_REAP to self-reap right
+ * now, or %DEATH_DELAYED_GROUP_LEADER to a zombie without notifying our
+ * parent. Note that a return value of 0 means a do_notify_parent() call
+ * that sends no signal, but still wakes up a parent blocked in wait*().
*
* Called with write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) held.
*/
void **death_cookie, int group_dead)
{
if (task->exit_signal == -1)
- return task->ptrace ? SIGCHLD : -1;
+ return task->ptrace ? SIGCHLD : DEATH_REAP;
/*
* If something other than our normal parent is ptracing us, then
if (thread_group_empty(task) && !ptrace_reparented(task))
return task->exit_signal;
- return task->ptrace ? SIGCHLD : 0;
+ return task->ptrace ? SIGCHLD : DEATH_DELAYED_GROUP_LEADER;
}
/**
* tracehook_report_death - task is dead and ready to be reaped
* @task: @current task now exiting
- * @signal: signal number sent to parent, or 0 or -1
+ * @signal: return value from tracheook_notify_death()
* @death_cookie: value passed back from tracehook_notify_death()
* @group_dead: nonzero if this was the last thread in the group to die
*
* Thread has just become a zombie or is about to self-reap. If positive,
* @signal is the signal number just sent to the parent (usually %SIGCHLD).
- * If @signal is -1, this thread will self-reap. If @signal is 0, this is
- * a delayed_group_leader() zombie. The @death_cookie was passed back by
- * tracehook_notify_death().
+ * If @signal is %DEATH_REAP, this thread will self-reap. If @signal is
+ * %DEATH_DELAYED_GROUP_LEADER, this is a delayed_group_leader() zombie.
+ * The @death_cookie was passed back by tracehook_notify_death().
*
* If normal reaping is not inhibited, @task->exit_state might be changing
* in parallel.