Re: [PATCH] s390: ptrace: don't abuse PT_PTRACED

[Heiko Carstens]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Untested, but hopefully trivial enough and should't change the
> compiled code.
> 
> Nobody except ptrace itself should use task->ptrace or PT_PTRACED
> directly, change arch/s390/kernel/traps.c to use the helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>

> -	if ((current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) != 0)
> +	if (tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(current, SIGTRAP))
>  		force_sig(SIGTRAP, current);

Thanks, applied. Even though I'm wondering why tracehook_consider_fatal_signal
has a signal parameter and doesn't do anything with it.
Is that something that will change with utrace?
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