linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] sys_setsid: remove now unneeded session != 1 check

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Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:37:22 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm] sys_setsid: remove now unneeded session != 1 check

Eric's "fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID)" eliminated the last reason for this hack.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- PT/kernel/sys.c~	2007-11-27 16:58:38.000000000 +0300
+++ PT/kernel/sys.c	2007-12-05 21:31:53.000000000 +0300
@@ -1056,11 +1056,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void)
 
 	/* Fail if a process group id already exists that equals the
 	 * proposed session id.
-	 *
-	 * Don't check if session == 1, clone(CLONE_NEWPID) creates
-	 * this group/session beforehand.
 	 */
-	if (session != 1 && pid_task(sid, PIDTYPE_PGID))
+	if (pid_task(sid, PIDTYPE_PGID))
 		goto out;
 
 	group_leader->signal->leader = 1;

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