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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-09-23 15:57:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 07:21:04 -0700
commit123be07b0b399670a7cc3d82fef0cb4f93ef885c (patch)
treeb6edc440be85cf312f7c35ad7b01c7ce7d9241a7 /kernel/fork.c
parent8d65af789f3e2cf4cfbdbf71a0f7a61ebcd41d38 (diff)
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fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for init
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 51ad0b0..b51fd2c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -979,6 +979,16 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
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);
+
retval = security_task_create(clone_flags);
if (retval)
goto fork_out;
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