From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759203AbZEFCIU (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 22:08:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753638AbZEFCIK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 22:08:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44757 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753038AbZEFCIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 22:08:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andrew Morton X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Oleg Nesterov , chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ptrace: ptrace_attach: check PF_KTHREAD + exit_state instead of ->mm In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of Tuesday, 5 May 2009 18:24:44 -0700 <20090505182444.de4e0143.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus References: <20090505224722.GA954@redhat.com> <20090505164733.54cd4ca4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090505235736.GA7526@redhat.com> <20090505182444.de4e0143.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Windows: no hardware is safe. Message-Id: <20090506020617.7D417FC328@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 19:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I now have: > > # > # ptrace > # > ptrace-remove-pt_dtrace-from-arch-h8300.patch > ptrace-remove-pt_dtrace-from-avr32-mn10300-parisc-s390-sh-xtensa.patch > ptrace-remove-pt_dtrace-from-m68k-m68knommu.patch > ptrace-remove-pt_dtrace-from-arch-m32r.patch > ptrace-mm_need_new_owner-use-real_parent-to-search-in-the-siblings.patch > ptrace-tracehook_unsafe_exec-remove-the-stale-comment.patch > ptrace-tracehook_unsafe_exec-remove-the-stale-comment-fix.patch > ptrace-do-not-use-task-ptrace-directly-in-core-kernel.patch > # > # utrace > # > signals-tracehook_notify_jctl-change.patch > utrace-core.patch > utrace-core-kill-exclude_xtrace-logic.patch I'd swap these three to be after ... > # > ptrace-ptrace_attach-check-pf_kthread-exit_state-instead-of-mm.patch > ptrace-cleanup-check-set-of-pt_ptraced-during-attach.patch > ptrace-do-not-use-task_lock-for-attach.patch > ptrace_get_task_struct-s-tasklist-rcu-make-it-static.patch ... all these. Some more ptrace patches will come in and can also go after these ptrace* ones but before the "utrace three". When we get there we'll replace those three including utrace with probably two (a revamp of the tracehook change plus a single refreshed utrace.patch). Thanks, Roland