Re: [PATCH 4/5] pidfd: add CLONE_WAIT_PID

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 07/24, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1902,6 +1902,10 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>         delayacct_tsk_init(p);  /* Must remain after dup_task_struct() */
>         p->flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_WQ_WORKER | PF_IDLE);
>         p->flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
> +       if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
> +               p->flags &= ~PF_PF_WAIT_PID;
> +       if (clone_flags & CLONE_WAIT_PID)
> +               p->flags |= PF_PF_WAIT_PID;

agreed, but then the "if (!thread_group_leader(tsk))" block in de_thread()
should also copy PF_PF_WAIT_PID.

> An alternative would be to not use p->flags at all, but instead make
> this a property of the signal_struct - since the property is shared by
> all threads, that might make more sense?

I tend to agree.

Oleg.