linux-kernel - Re: broken daemonize (COW credentials?)

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:15:11 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: broken daemonize (COW credentials?)

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:

> I'm observing daemonize crashes with this code:

I'm not seeing daemonize() crash, but I can see how it might - depending on
the changes to the creds made by daemonize().  commit_creds() should only call
set_dumpable() if task->mm is not NULL.

David
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