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vfork: kill PF_STARTING 

Previously it was (ab)used by utrace.  Then it was wrongly used by the
scheduler code.

Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2012-03-05 14:59:14 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 57b59c4a14
commit 6e27f63edb
2 changed files with 0 additions and 10 deletions
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include/linux/sched.h
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@ -1777,7 +1777,6 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
/*
* Per process flags
*/
#define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */
#define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */
#define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */
#define PF_VCPU 0x00000010 /* I'm a virtual CPU */

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kernel/fork.c
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@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ static void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
new_flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_WQ_WORKER);
new_flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
new_flags |= PF_STARTING;
p->flags = new_flags;
}
@ -1579,14 +1578,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
get_task_struct(p);
}
/*
* We set PF_STARTING at creation in case tracing wants to
* use this to distinguish a fully live task from one that
* hasn't finished SIGSTOP raising yet. Now we clear it
* and set the child going.
*/
p->flags &= ~PF_STARTING;
wake_up_new_task(p);
/* forking complete and child started to run, tell ptracer */