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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-06 15:02:30 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-06 15:02:34 +0200
commitd9b2002c406011164f245de7a81304625989f1c9 (patch)
treea2bb74773cd1409acbec5eb2fbba2ae9889d55e8 /kernel/ptrace.c
parentc3b32fcbc7f4fd9a9b84718b991b175b0fd53f8c (diff)
parent906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a (diff)
Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: Upcoming patch is dependent on a fix in perf/urgent. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 307c285af59..23bd09cd042 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -266,9 +266,10 @@ static int ignoring_children(struct sighand_struct *sigh)
* or self-reaping. Do notification now if it would have happened earlier.
* If it should reap itself, return true.
*
- * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do.
- * But if our normal children self-reap, then this child
- * was prevented by ptrace and we must reap it now.
+ * If it's our own child, there is no notification to do. But if our normal
+ * children self-reap, then this child was prevented by ptrace and we must
+ * reap it now, in that case we must also wake up sub-threads sleeping in
+ * do_wait().
*/
static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
{
@@ -278,8 +279,10 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
if (!task_detached(p) && thread_group_empty(p)) {
if (!same_thread_group(p->real_parent, tracer))
do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal);
- else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand))
+ else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand)) {
+ __wake_up_parent(p, tracer);
p->exit_signal = -1;
+ }
}
if (task_detached(p)) {
/* Mark it as in the process of being reaped. */