linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Disable CLONE

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:58:33 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>, serue@...ibm.com,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Disable CLONE_PARENT for init

On 07/01, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>
> --- linux-mmotm.orig/kernel/fork.c	2009-06-30 23:01:06.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-mmotm/kernel/fork.c	2009-07-01 17:29:09.000000000 -0700
> @@ -974,6 +974,16 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
>  	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_VM))
>  		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> +	/*
> +	 * Siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are
> +	 * not reaped by their parent (swapper). To solve this and to avoid
> +	 * multi-rooted process trees, prevent global and container-inits
> +	 * from creating siblings.
> +	 */
> +	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT) &&
> +				current->signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

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

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