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-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 6ef8f7356a74..2d39ccc367e6 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1383,6 +1383,15 @@ repeat:
switch (p->state) {
case TASK_TRACED:
+ /*
+ * When we hit the race with PTRACE_ATTACH,
+ * we will not report this child. But the
+ * race means it has not yet been moved to
+ * our ptrace_children list, so we need to
+ * set the flag here to avoid a spurious ECHILD
+ * when the race happens with the only child.
+ */
+ flag = 1;
if (!my_ptrace_child(p))
continue;
/*FALLTHROUGH*/