linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] make kernel threads invisible to /sbin/init

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Message-ID: <m17isjwpvc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:29:11 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] make kernel threads invisible to /sbin/init

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:

> Quoting Oleg Nesterov (oleg@...sign.ru):
>> 1. rename reparent_to_init() to reparent_kthread() and export it
>> 
>> 2. use init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead of child_reaper(current)
>
> Each of these patches looks good to me, but this part in particular
> is a must-have bugfix.

Removing daemonize is a must have bug fix.  This falls short of that so
it is a good fix, but it doesn't solve the core problem that kernel daemons
are being assigned pids inside of child pid namespaces.

It doesn't solve the problem that some kernel daemons are using signals
to communicate with user space.

It doesn't solve the problem that we have to do a lot of massaging and
maintenance to get kernel threads from grabbing references to namespaces
and other kernel pieces they should not be grabbing.

Eric
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