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signal: Guarantee that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set on process exit
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:38:52 +0000 (14:38 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:23:51 +0000 (10:23 -0500)
commitd80f7d7b2c75c5954d335dffbccca62a5002c3e0
tree323d202b5875f926c9b35f660ed3c1aa6334183d
parentcbe9dac379047730e39c7e570eddd27124b0d2dc
signal: Guarantee that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set on process exit

Track how many threads have not started exiting and when the last
thread starts exiting set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT.

This guarantees that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT will get set when a process
exits.  In practice this achieves nothing as glibc's implementation of
_exit calls sys_group_exit then sys_exit.  While glibc's implemenation
of pthread_exit calls exit (which cleansup and calls _exit) if it is
the last thread and sys_exit if it is the last thread.

This means the only way the kernel might observe a process that does
not set call exit_group is if the language runtime does not use glibc.

With more cleanups I hope to move the decrement of quick_threads
earlier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bkukd4tc.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
include/linux/sched/signal.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c