ptrace children revamp

ptrace no longer fiddles with the children/sibling links, and the
old ptrace_children list is gone.  Now ptrace, whether of one's own
children or another's via PTRACE_ATTACH, just uses the new ptraced
list instead.

There should be no user-visible difference that matters.  The only
change is the order in which do_wait() sees multiple stopped
children and stopped ptrace attachees.  Since wait_task_stopped()
was changed earlier so it no longer reorders the children list, we
already know this won't cause any new problems.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

include/linux/init_task.h

@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
 		.nr_cpus_allowed = NR_CPUS,				\
 	},								\
 	.tasks		= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.tasks),			\
-	.ptrace_children= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.ptrace_children),		\
-	.ptrace_list	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.ptrace_list),		\
+	.ptraced	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.ptraced),			\
+	.ptrace_entry	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.ptrace_entry),		\
 	.real_parent	= &tsk,						\
 	.parent		= &tsk,						\
 	.children	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.children),			\

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -1062,12 +1062,6 @@ struct task_struct {
 #endif
 
 	struct list_head tasks;
-	/*
-	 * ptrace_list/ptrace_children forms the list of my children
-	 * that were stolen by a ptracer.
-	 */
-	struct list_head ptrace_children;
-	struct list_head ptrace_list;
 
 	struct mm_struct *mm, *active_mm;
 
@@ -1089,18 +1083,25 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/* 
 	 * pointers to (original) parent process, youngest child, younger sibling,
 	 * older sibling, respectively.  (p->father can be replaced with 
-	 * p->parent->pid)
+	 * p->real_parent->pid)
 	 */
-	struct task_struct *real_parent; /* real parent process (when being debugged) */
-	struct task_struct *parent;	/* parent process */
+	struct task_struct *real_parent; /* real parent process */
+	struct task_struct *parent; /* recipient of SIGCHLD, wait4() reports */
 	/*
-	 * children/sibling forms the list of my children plus the
-	 * tasks I'm ptracing.
+	 * children/sibling forms the list of my natural children
 	 */
 	struct list_head children;	/* list of my children */
 	struct list_head sibling;	/* linkage in my parent's children list */
 	struct task_struct *group_leader;	/* threadgroup leader */
 
+	/*
+	 * ptraced is the list of tasks this task is using ptrace on.
+	 * This includes both natural children and PTRACE_ATTACH targets.
+	 * p->ptrace_entry is p's link on the p->parent->ptraced list.
+	 */
+	struct list_head ptraced;
+	struct list_head ptrace_entry;
+
 	/* PID/PID hash table linkage. */
 	struct pid_link pids[PIDTYPE_MAX];
 	struct list_head thread_group;
@@ -1876,9 +1877,6 @@ extern void wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct * p);
 #define wait_task_inactive(p)	do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
-#define remove_parent(p)	list_del_init(&(p)->sibling)
-#define add_parent(p)		list_add_tail(&(p)->sibling,&(p)->parent->children)
-
 #define next_task(p)	list_entry(rcu_dereference((p)->tasks.next), struct task_struct, tasks)
 
 #define for_each_process(p) \

kernel/fork.c

@@ -1125,8 +1125,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	 */
 	p->group_leader = p;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->thread_group);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->ptrace_children);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->ptrace_list);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->ptrace_entry);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->ptraced);
 
 	/* Now that the task is set up, run cgroup callbacks if
 	 * necessary. We need to run them before the task is visible
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	}
 
 	if (likely(p->pid)) {
-		add_parent(p);
+		list_add_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
 		if (unlikely(p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
 			__ptrace_link(p, current->parent);
 

kernel/ptrace.c

@@ -33,13 +33,9 @@
  */
 void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
 {
-	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_list));
-	if (child->parent == new_parent)
-		return;
-	list_add(&child->ptrace_list, &child->parent->ptrace_children);
-	remove_parent(child);
+	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&child->ptrace_entry));
+	list_add(&child->ptrace_entry, &new_parent->ptraced);
 	child->parent = new_parent;
-	add_parent(child);
 }
  
 /*
@@ -73,12 +69,8 @@ void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child)
 	BUG_ON(!child->ptrace);
 
 	child->ptrace = 0;
-	if (ptrace_reparented(child)) {
-		list_del_init(&child->ptrace_list);
-		remove_parent(child);
-		child->parent = child->real_parent;
-		add_parent(child);
-	}
+	child->parent = child->real_parent;
+	list_del_init(&child->ptrace_entry);
 
 	if (task_is_traced(child))
 		ptrace_untrace(child);
@@ -492,15 +484,34 @@ int ptrace_traceme(void)
 	/*
 	 * Are we already being traced?
 	 */
+repeat:
 	task_lock(current);
 	if (!(current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)) {
+		/*
+		 * See ptrace_attach() comments about the locking here.
+		 */
+		unsigned long flags;
+		if (!write_trylock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags)) {
+			task_unlock(current);
+			do {
+				cpu_relax();
+			} while (!write_can_lock(&tasklist_lock));
+			goto repeat;
+		}
+
 		ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current,
 				      PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH);
+
 		/*
 		 * Set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags.
+		 * Then link us on our parent's ptraced list.
 		 */
-		if (!ret)
+		if (!ret) {
 			current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
+			__ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
+		}
+
+		write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
 	}
 	task_unlock(current);
 	return ret;