From: Oleg Nesterov Currently __ptrace_unlink() checks list_empty(->ptrace_list) to figure out whether the child was reparented. Change the code to use ptrace_reparented() to make this check more explicit and consistent. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/ptrace.c~ptrace-__ptrace_unlink-use-the-ptrace_reparented-helper kernel/ptrace.c --- a/kernel/ptrace.c~ptrace-__ptrace_unlink-use-the-ptrace_reparented-helper +++ a/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct BUG_ON(!child->ptrace); child->ptrace = 0; - if (!list_empty(&child->ptrace_list)) { + if (ptrace_reparented(child)) { list_del_init(&child->ptrace_list); remove_parent(child); child->parent = child->real_parent; _