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wait(2) and friends allow access to stopped/continued states through
zombies, which is required as the states are process-wide and should
be accessible whether the leader task is alive or undead.
wait_consider_task() implements this by always clearing notask_error
and going through wait_task_stopped/continued() for unreaped zombies.

However, while ptraced, the stopped state is per-task and as such if
the ptracee became a zombie, there's no further stopped event to
listen to and wait(2) and friends should return -ECHILD on the tracee.

Fix it by clearing notask_error only if WCONTINUED | WEXITED is set
for ptraced zombies.  While at it, document why clearing notask_error
is safe for each case.

Test case follows.

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <pthread.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/ptrace.h>
  #include <sys/wait.h>

  static void *nooper(void *arg)
  {
	  pause();
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  siginfo_t si;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (tracee == 0) {
		  pthread_t thr;

		  pthread_create(&thr, NULL, nooper, NULL);
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("tracee exiting\n");
		  pthread_exit(NULL);	/* let subthread run */
	  }

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (tracer == 0) {
		  ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  while (1) {
			  if (waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED) < 0) {
				  perror("waitid");
				  break;
			  }
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
				 (void *)(long)si.si_status);
		  }
		  return 0;
	  }

	  waitid(P_PID, tracer, &si, WEXITED);
	  kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
	  return 0;
  }

Before the patch, after the tracee becomes a zombie, the tracer's
waitid(WSTOPPED) never returns and the program doesn't terminate.

  tracee exiting
  ^C

After the patch, tracee exiting triggers waitid() to fail.

  tracee exiting
  waitid: No child processes

-v2: Oleg pointed out that exited in addition to continued can happen
     for ptraced dead group leader.  Clear notask_error for ptraced
     child on WEXITED too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>