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Christian Brauner
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Since commit b191d6491b ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
we unconditionally set exit_state to EXIT_ZOMBIE before calling into
do_notify_parent(). This was done to eliminate a race when querying
exit_state in do_notify_pidfd().
Back then we decided to do the absolute minimal thing to fix this and
not touch the rest of the exit_notify() function where exit_state is
set.
Since this fix has not caused any issues change the setting of
exit_state to EXIT_DEAD in the autoreap case to account for the fact hat
exit_state is set to EXIT_ZOMBIE unconditionally. This fix was planned
but also explicitly requested in [1] and makes the whole code more
consistent.
/* References */
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wigcxGFR2szue4wavJtH5cYTTeNES=toUBVGsmX0rzX+g@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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