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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-12-23 10:05:19 -0600
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-01-08 12:43:57 -0600
commit270b6541e603a7fae0cad7af3dc3bca6adb343f3 (patch)
treef9593f5328c3f636a692d88b520fe2a978b09ae2 /kernel
parent2873cd31a20c25b5e763b35e5fb886f0938c6dd5 (diff)
downloadlinux-270b6541e603a7fae0cad7af3dc3bca6adb343f3.tar.bz2
exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
The comment about coredumps not reaching do_group_exit and the corresponding BUG_ON are bogus. What happens and has happened for years is that get_signal calls do_coredump (which sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT and group_exit_code) and then do_group_exit passing the signal number. Then do_group_exit ignores the exit_code it is passed and uses signal->group_exit_code from the coredump. The comment and BUG_ON were correct when they were added during the 2.5 development cycle, but became obsolete and incorrect when get_signal was changed to fall through to do_group_exit after do_coredump in 2.6.10-rc2. So remove the stale comment and BUG_ON Fixes: 63bd6144f191 ("[PATCH] Invalid BUG_ONs in signal.c") History-Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220103213312.9144-2-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 64e907bc87d5..db86307077d4 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -911,8 +911,6 @@ do_group_exit(int exit_code)
{
struct signal_struct *sig = current->signal;
- BUG_ON(exit_code & 0x80); /* core dumps don't get here */
-
if (sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)
exit_code = sig->group_exit_code;
else if (sig->group_exec_task)