Re: PATCH? tracehook_report_clone: fix false positives

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 20:19:03 EST


On 06/01, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> This is where the utrace attachment point has to be (i.e. outside all the
> locking).

Yes I see. Quoting myself:

Yes, utrace-ptrace will likely change this code further anyway
and move the code from _init() to _report_clone() back, but in this case
I guess the whole tracehook_finish_clone() will go away, so this change
looks right anyway to me.

> So I don't see any benefit to changing the ptrace status quo now
> for its own sake.

OK, agreed.

Oleg.

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