Date:   Fri, 7 Jan 2022 03:42:59 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
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        Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] exit: Move oops specific logic from do_exit into
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 05:48:08AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:25:25PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > The beginning of do_exit has become cluttered and difficult to read as
> > it is filled with checks to handle things that can only happen when
> > the kernel is operating improperly.
> > 
> > Now that we have a dedicated function for cleaning up a task when the
> > kernel is operating improperly move the checks there.
> 
> Umm...  I would probably take profile_task_exit() crap out before that
> point.
> 	1) the damn thing is dead - nothing registers notifiers there
> 	2) blocking_notifier_call_chain() is not a nice thing to do on oops...
> 
> I'll post a patch ripping the dead parts of kernel/profile.c out tomorrow
> morning (there's also profile_handoff_task(), equally useless these days
> and complicating things for __put_task_struct()).

Argh...  OK, so your subsequent series had pretty much the same thing.
My apologies - still digging myself out from mail pile that had accumulated
over two months ;-/