linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

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Message-ID: <20120502124015.GA3657@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2012 14:40:15 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@...labs.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> writes:
>
> > On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> There are crazy code paths like daemonize()
> >
> > Forget. It has no callers anymore, should be killed. A user-space process
> > should never use kernel_thread() and thus daemonize() is not needed.
>
> Good point.  Oleg do you think you can send in the patches to kill
> daemonize.

Yes, will do. I am waiting until the last user in arch/powerpc goes
away, the patch is already in mm.

Oleg.

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