ptrace: introduce ptrace_reparented() helper

Add another trivial helper for the sake of grep.  It also auto-documents the
fact that ->parent != real_parent implies ->ptrace.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index ebe0c17039cf0f8dec6d6207da29052463a610d3..f98501ba557eea676a827aed770d57b0b4b12c56 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ extern void ptrace_untrace(struct task_struct *child);
 extern int ptrace_may_attach(struct task_struct *task);
 extern int __ptrace_may_attach(struct task_struct *task);
 
+static inline int ptrace_reparented(struct task_struct *child)
+{
+       return child->real_parent != child->parent;
+}
 static inline void ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
                               struct task_struct *new_parent)
 {

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 879ed6e1c88336fab0a7689b9240c6dab0899d76..0da2921b1e7f32000890ae5b2729de589d564c54 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ reparent_thread(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *father, int traced)
        if (unlikely(traced)) {
                /* Preserve ptrace links if someone else is tracing this child.  */
                list_del_init(&p->ptrace_list);
-               if (p->parent != p->real_parent)
+               if (ptrace_reparented(p))
                        list_add(&p->ptrace_list, &p->real_parent->ptrace_children);
        } else {
                /* If this child is being traced, then we're the one tracing it
@@ -865,8 +865,8 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
         * only has special meaning to our real parent.
         */
        if (!task_detached(tsk) && thread_group_empty(tsk)) {
-               int signal = (tsk->parent == tsk->real_parent)
-                               ? tsk->exit_signal : SIGCHLD;
+               int signal = ptrace_reparented(tsk) ?
+                               SIGCHLD : tsk->exit_signal;
                do_notify_parent(tsk, signal);
        } else if (tsk->ptrace) {
                do_notify_parent(tsk, SIGCHLD);
@@ -1269,8 +1269,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct task_struct *p, int noreap,
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /* traced means p->ptrace, but not vice versa */
-       traced = (p->real_parent != p->parent);
+       traced = ptrace_reparented(p);
 
        if (likely(!traced)) {
                struct signal_struct *psig;