[PATCH] pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Feb 05 2024 - 12:45:43 EST


It was used by pidfd_poll() but now it has no callers.

If it finally finds a modular user we can revert this change, but note
that the comment above this helper and the changelog in 38fd525a4c61
("exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll") are not accurate,
thread_group_exited() won't return true if all other threads have passed
exit_notify() and are zombies, it returns true only when all other threads
are completely gone. Not to mention that it can only work if the task
identified by @pid is a thread-group leader.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 2 --
kernel/exit.c | 24 ------------------------
2 files changed, 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 4b7664c56208..0a0e23c45406 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -735,8 +735,6 @@ static inline int thread_group_empty(struct task_struct *p)
#define delay_group_leader(p) \
(thread_group_leader(p) && !thread_group_empty(p))

-extern bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid);
-
extern struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *task,
unsigned long *flags);

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 493647fd7c07..41a12630cbbc 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1896,30 +1896,6 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid,
}
#endif

-/**
- * thread_group_exited - check that a thread group has exited
- * @pid: tgid of thread group to be checked.
- *
- * Test if the thread group represented by tgid has exited (all
- * threads are zombies, dead or completely gone).
- *
- * Return: true if the thread group has exited. false otherwise.
- */
-bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid)
-{
- struct task_struct *task;
- bool exited;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- task = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
- exited = !task ||
- (READ_ONCE(task->exit_state) && thread_group_empty(task));
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
- return exited;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(thread_group_exited);
-
/*
* This needs to be __function_aligned as GCC implicitly makes any
* implementation of abort() cold and drops alignment specified by
--
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55