[PATCH 2/3] ptrace_stop: remove the wrong ->group_stop_count bookkeeping

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Dec 08 2007 - 13:37:43 EST


ptrace_stop() decrements ->group_stop_count to "participate" in group stop.
This looks very wrong to me, the task can in fact decrement this counter twice.
If the tracee returns to the user-space before other threads complete the group
stop, it will notice TIF_SIGPENDING and do it again.

Another problem is that we don't set SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED if the counter becomes
zero.

I must admit, I don't undestand the reason why this code was added, it is very
old.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- PT/kernel/signal.c~5_ptrace_stop 2007-12-08 16:46:37.000000000 +0300
+++ PT/kernel/signal.c 2007-12-08 16:47:53.000000000 +0300
@@ -1579,13 +1579,6 @@ static inline int may_ptrace_stop(void)
*/
static void ptrace_stop(int exit_code, int clear_code, siginfo_t *info)
{
- /*
- * If there is a group stop in progress,
- * we must participate in the bookkeeping.
- */
- if (current->signal->group_stop_count > 0)
- --current->signal->group_stop_count;
-
current->last_siginfo = info;
current->exit_code = exit_code;


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