Re: [PATCH] exec: Cleanup exec from a non thread group leader.

[Oleg Nesterov]

Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > -     list_add_tail(&thread->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
> 
> The last deletion is wrong, I beleive.

Just to clarify, it looks like we can kill this line because
de_thread() also does list_add_tail(current, &init_task.tasks).

But please note that it (and probably __ptrace_link() above)
does list_del(current->task) first, and current->task may have
very stale values after old leader called dup_task_struct().
SET_LINKS() in copy_process() does nothing with ->tasks in a
CLONE_THREAD case.

Oleg.
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