[PATCH] remove the no longer needed pid_alive() check in __task_pid_nr_ns()

Oleg Nesterov oleg at redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 18:05:24 UTC 2020


On 04/21, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Starting from 2c4704756cab ("pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers
> > from task_struct to signal_struct") __task_pid_nr_ns() doesn't dereference
> > task->group_leader, we can remove the pid_alive() check.
> >
> > pid_nr_ns() has to check pid != NULL anyway, pid_alive() just adds the
> > unnecessary confusion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>

Thanks, can you take this patch?

Oleg.



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