Re: [RFC,PATCH 2/2] change __wake_up_parent() to use filteredwakeup

[Roland McGrath]

> > Agreed.  The not-right case I had in mind was do_notify_parent_cldstop
> > where maybe it could be ->real_parent of the untraced group_leader.
> 
> Hmm. Could you explain?
> 
> I feel I missed something, but can't understand.

Sorry, it wasn't very clear.  (I guess I should have said "traced group
leader", though that would not have been much more obvious.)

do_notify_parent_cldstop:

	if (task_ptrace(tsk))
		parent = tsk->parent;
	else {
		tsk = tsk->group_leader;
		parent = tsk->real_parent;
	}
	...
	__wake_up_parent(tsk, parent);

In the "else" case, parent is not necessarily tsk->parent.  That is, if
an untraced thread calls do_notify_parent_cldstop() but its group_leader
is ptrace_reparented().  Then waitee->group_leader->real_parent is who
gets the wakeup, but __wake_up_parent->child_wait_wakeup would check
only waiter == waitee->group_leader->parent.


Thanks,
Roland
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