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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-04-30 00:53:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:38 -0700
commit53b6f9fbd3b63af14b4f6268e8b5b80d178d05bc (patch)
tree93a5bd26974e07a3d7fa20dc17c8b70daacc1d85 /kernel
parent2800d8d19e51414403df8144eaa214bb03400b87 (diff)
downloadlinux-53b6f9fbd3b63af14b4f6268e8b5b80d178d05bc.tar.gz
ptrace: introduce ptrace_reparented() helper
Add another trivial helper for the sake of grep.  It also auto-documents the
fact that ->parent != real_parent implies ->ptrace.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 879ed6e1c883..0da2921b1e7f 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father, int traced)
 	if (unlikely(traced)) {
 		/* Preserve ptrace links if someone else is tracing this child.  */
 		list_del_init(&p->ptrace_list);
-		if (p->parent != p->real_parent)
+		if (ptrace_reparented(p))
 			list_add(&p->ptrace_list, &p->real_parent->ptrace_children);
 	} else {
 		/* If this child is being traced, then we're the one tracing it
@@ -865,8 +865,8 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 	 * only has special meaning to our real parent.
 	 */
 	if (!task_detached(tsk) && thread_group_empty(tsk)) {
-		int signal = (tsk->parent == tsk->real_parent)
-				? tsk->exit_signal : SIGCHLD;
+		int signal = ptrace_reparented(tsk) ?
+				SIGCHLD : tsk->exit_signal;
 		do_notify_parent(tsk, signal);
 	} else if (tsk->ptrace) {
 		do_notify_parent(tsk, SIGCHLD);
@@ -1269,8 +1269,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct task_struct *p, int noreap,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	/* traced means p->ptrace, but not vice versa */
-	traced = (p->real_parent != p->parent);
+	traced = ptrace_reparented(p);
 
 	if (likely(!traced)) {
 		struct signal_struct *psig;