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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 8860d1f50d24..7161ebe67cbb 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -901,14 +901,12 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) deactivate_mm(tsk, mm); /* - * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if - * requested. We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave - * the value intact in a core dump, and to save the unnecessary - * trouble, say, a killed vfork parent shouldn't touch this mm. - * Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit. + * Signal userspace if we're not exiting with a core dump + * because we want to leave the value intact for debugging + * purposes. */ if (tsk->clear_child_tid) { - if (!(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) && + if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { /* * We don't check the error code - if userspace has |