[PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster

This is based on a patch by Eric W.  Biederman, who pointed out that pid
namespaces are still fake, and we only have one ever active.

So for the time being, we can modify any code which could access
tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns during task exit to just use &init_pid_ns instead,
and move the exit_task_namespaces call in do_exit() back above
exit_notify(), so that an exiting nfs server has a valid tsk->sighand to
work with.

Long term, pulling pid_ns out of nsproxy might be the cleanest solution.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

[ Eric's patch fixed to take care of free_pid() too ]

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index d2a9d41..2833806 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 
 static inline struct task_struct *child_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	return tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns->child_reaper;
+	return init_pid_ns.child_reaper;
 }
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_PID_NS_H */
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3540172..fec12eb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -938,8 +938,8 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 
 	tsk->exit_code = code;
 	proc_exit_connector(tsk);
-	exit_notify(tsk);
 	exit_task_namespaces(tsk);
+	exit_notify(tsk);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	mpol_free(tsk->mempolicy);
 	tsk->mempolicy = NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 2efe9d8..78f2aee 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ fastcall void free_pid(struct pid *pid)
 	hlist_del_rcu(&pid->pid_chain);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pidmap_lock, flags);
 
-	free_pidmap(current->nsproxy->pid_ns, pid->nr);
+	free_pidmap(&init_pid_ns, pid->nr);
 	call_rcu(&pid->rcu, delayed_put_pid);
 }