From d015baebba44613ef59ddffeae2114fa4ede7104 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:23:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): remove an obscure EXIT_ZOMBIE check futex_find_get_task: if (p->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE || p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) return NULL; I can't understand this. First, p->state can't be EXIT_ZOMBIE. The ->exit_state check looks strange too. Sub-threads or tasks whose ->parent ignores SIGCHLD go directly to EXIT_DEAD state (I am ignoring a ptrace case). Why EXIT_DEAD tasks should be ok? Yes, EXIT_ZOMBIE is more important (a task may stay zombie for a long time), but this doesn't mean we should explicitely ignore other EXIT_XXX states. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed