linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 'kill sig -1' must only apply to caller's namespace

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Message-ID: <20081024110646.GA10521@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:46 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, daniel@...ac.com,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'kill sig -1' must only apply to caller's namespace

On 10/23, sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -1144,7 +1144,8 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
>  		struct task_struct * p;
>
>  		for_each_process(p) {
> -			if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current)) {
> +			if (task_pid_vnr(p) > 1 &&
> +					!same_thread_group(p, current)) {

Thanks Sukadev!

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Oleg.

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