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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2009-09-25 12:15:15 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2009-09-25 12:15:15 +0900
commitc373ba999103fa794f041eab5bd490714d2dee88 (patch)
tree8f2b445b1e0af2491c83527967dbcda76054a486 /kernel/ptrace.c
parent6f3529f00a0a9ac06413d18d3926adf099cb59af (diff)
parent851b147e4411df6a1e7e90e2a609773c277eefd2 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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. */