linux-kernel - Re: CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:11:18 +0100
From:	Christian Seiler <christian@...kd.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
CC:	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Lxc development list <lxc-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID)

Eric W. Biederman writes:
> So hmm.
>
> Because it can do no harm, and because it is a regression let's remove
> the CLONE_PARENT check and send it stable.
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 086fe73..c447fbc 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
>           * do not allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers or
>           * parent with the forking task.
>           */
> -       if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_PARENT)) {
> +       if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND)) {
>                  if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) ||
>                      (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
>                                  current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))

Just a short question, what happened to this patch? As far as I can
tell, 3.13rc8 doesn't include it, neither does the current 3.12.7. This
means that lxc-attach currently still doesn't work on 3.12 and probably
won't work on 3.13 either... (3.11 is fine, see the previous mails in
this thread.)

-- Christian

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