Re: A fix for futex patch

[Rusty Russell]

In message <[e-mail]> you write:
> I looked in latest 2.5.25 futex.c and at line # 278, the f_owner.pid is
> back to "current->pid".
> Last month, I'd send you this fix to work correctly with cloned task.
> I thought at one point you had changed this to "current->tgid", and now
> it's back to pid.
> The pid should be tgid to work for all cases.

Oops.  Good catch.  My mistake.

Linus, "getpid()" returns "tgid" not "pid", so this is correct.

Thanks!
Rusty.

diff -urN -I $.*$ --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.25/kernel/futex.c working-2.5.25-futex/kernel/futex.c
--- linux-2.5.25/kernel/futex.c	Fri Jun 21 09:41:56 2002
+++ working-2.5.25-futex/kernel/futex.c	Sat Jul 13 13:24:43 2002
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
 	filp->f_dentry = dget(futex_dentry);
 
 	if (signal) {
-		filp->f_owner.pid = current->pid;
+		filp->f_owner.pid = current->tgid;
 		filp->f_owner.uid = current->uid;
 		filp->f_owner.euid = current->euid;
 		filp->f_owner.signum = signal;

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