linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH] handle the multi-threaded init's exit() properly

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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:33:26 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] handle the multi-threaded init's exit() properly

On 08/06, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:20:09 +0400 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> wrote:
> 
> > 2. We are playing games with ->nsproxy->pid_ns. This code is bogus today, and
> >    it has to be changed anyway when we really support pid namespaces, just
> >    remove it.
>
> This patch broke
> 
> pid-namespaces-define-and-use-task_active_pid_ns-wrapper.patch.  This hunk:
> 
> ***************
> *** 908,915 ****
>   	if (unlikely(!tsk->pid))
>   		panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
>   	if (unlikely(tsk == child_reaper(tsk))) {
> - 		if (tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns != &init_pid_ns)
> - 			tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper;
>   		else
>   			panic("Attempted to kill init!");
>   	}
> --- 908,916 ----
>   	if (unlikely(!tsk->pid))
>   		panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
>   	if (unlikely(tsk == child_reaper(tsk))) {
> + 		if (task_active_pid_ns(tsk) != &init_pid_ns)
> + 			task_active_pid_ns(tsk)->child_reaper =
> + 					init_pid_ns.child_reaper;
>   		else
>   			panic("Attempted to kill init!");
>   	}
> 
> has no place to live any more, so I just removed it.

Ah, thanks. I should have done this patch against -mm tree.

I hope it is OK to drop this chunk of
	pid-namespaces-define-and-use-task_active_pid_ns-wrapper.patch

Because it can't work right now anyway, and Sukadev+Pavel already have
new patches on top this one which make namespace switch actually work.

Oleg.

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