Re: [PATCH 3/3] fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/23, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I want to point out that we need to consider not just SIGKILL, but
> SIGABRT that causes a coredump, as well as the process peforming
> an ordinary exit(2).  All of which will cause get_signal to return
> SIGKILL in this context.

Yes, but probably SIGABRT/exit doesn't really differ from SIGKILL wrt
vhost_worker().

> It is probably not the worst thing in the world, but what this means
> is now if you pass a copy of the vhost file descriptor to another
> process the vhost_worker will persist, and thus the process will persist
> until that copy of the file descriptor is closed.

Hadn't thought about it.

I am fighting with internal bugzillas today, will try to write another
email tomorrow.

But before that, I would like to have an answer to my "main" question in
my previois email. Otherwise I am still not sure I understand what exactly
we need to fix.

Oleg.