Re: [PATCH 0/3] ptrace: Stop supporting SIGKILL for PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT

From: Alexander Gordeev
Date: Thu Jun 23 2022 - 11:13:26 EST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 11:43:37AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Recently I had a conversation where it was pointed out to me that
> SIGKILL sent to a tracee stropped in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT is quite
> difficult for a tracer to handle.
>
> Keeping SIGKILL working for anything after the process has been killed
> is also a real pain from an implementation point of view.
>
> So I am attempting to remove this wart in the userspace API and see
> if anyone cares.

Hi Eric,

With this series s390 hits the warning exactly same way. Is that expected?

Thanks!