Re: ptrace: selinux_bprm_committed_creds: simplify__wake_up_parent() code and s/parent/real_parent/

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun May 03 2009 - 16:17:39 EST


On 04/30, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Afaics, with this patch the only user of ->parent outside of ptrace.c & co
> > is arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c:format_mca_init_stack(). Hopefully ->parent will
> > die soon.
>
> You could clean it up today with:
> tracehook_finish_clone(p, 0, 0);

Yes... but we still need to initialize real_parent/group_leader. This code
is so special, perhaps it is better to just remove "p->parent = " later and
do not add "#include tracehook". We will see.

Oleg.

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