On 10/11, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Hmm. Actually, do we need any check? If another thread (or CLONE_VM task)
> > already started do_coredump(), we must see SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT when we take
> > ->mmap_sem. In that case coredump_wait() does nothing but returns -EAGAIN.
>
> You're right again here. I'm sure the old use predates this checking in
> zap_threads, so it's understandable that something different was needed for
> this synchronization before.
Ugh, sorry, I was wrong. coredump_wait() initializes mm->core_done and sets
mm->core_startup_done before checking SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. This means we have
to check ->core_waiters or SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT before calling coredump_wait().
Oleg.
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