We're testing the wrong task_struct field. Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data)
*/
case PTRACE_KILL:
ret = 0;
- if (child->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) /* already dead */
+ if (child->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) /* already dead */
break;
child->exit_code = SIGKILL;
child->ptrace &= ~PT_SINGLESTEP;