[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 27/59] exit: make setting exit_state consistent

[Sasha Levin]

From: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 30b692d3b390c6fe78a5064be0c4bbd44a41be59 ]

Since commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
we unconditionally set exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE before calling into
do_notify_parent(). This was done to eliminate a race when querying
exit_state in do_notify_pidfd().
Back then we decided to do the absolute minimal thing to fix this and
not touch the rest of the exit_notify() function where exit_state is
set.
Since this fix has not caused any issues change the setting of
exit_state to EXIT_DEAD in the autoreap case to account for the fact hat
exit_state is set to EXIT_ZOMBIE unconditionally. This fix was planned
but also explicitly requested in [1] and makes the whole code more
consistent.

/* References */
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wigcxGFR2szue4wavJtH5cYTTeNES=toUBVGsmX0rzX+g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/exit.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a75b6a7f458a7..0922e84ba6c1f 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -733,9 +733,10 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 		autoreap = true;
 	}
 
-	tsk->exit_state = autoreap ? EXIT_DEAD : EXIT_ZOMBIE;
-	if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD)
+	if (autoreap) {
+		tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
 		list_add(&tsk->ptrace_entry, &dead);
+	}
 
 	/* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for group leader */
 	if (unlikely(tsk->signal->notify_count < 0))
-- 
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