From 7f2a52555998c699a7e89f24636c909d6fc08a60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:02:50 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] wait4 PTRACE_ATTACH race fix Back about a year ago when I last fiddled heavily with the do_wait code, I was thinking too hard about the wrong thing and I now think I introduced a bug whose inverse thought I was fixing. Apparently noone was looking too hard over much shoulder, so as to cite my bogus reasoning at the time. In the race condition when PTRACE_ATTACH is about to steal a child and then the child hits a tracing event (what my_ptrace_child checks for), the real parent does need to set its flag noting it has some eligible live children. Otherwise a spurious ECHILD error is possible, since the child in question is not yet on the ptrace_children list. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed