From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:35:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~67 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=add0d4dfd660e9e4fd0af3eac3cad23583c9558f;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing zap_pid_ns_processes() sets pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL, this is wrong. Yes, we have already killed all tasks in this namespace, and sys_wait4() doesn't see any child. But this doesn't mean ->children list is empty, we may have EXIT_DEAD tasks which are not visible to do_wait(). In that case the subsequent forget_original_parent() will crash the kernel because it will try to re-parent these tasks to the NULL reaper. Even if there are no childs, it is not good that forget_original_parent() uses reaper == NULL. Change the code to set ->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead. We could use pid_ns->parent->child_reaper as well, I think this does not really matter. These EXIT_DEAD tasks are not visible to the new ->parent after re-parenting, they will silently do release_task() eventually. Note that we must change ->child_reaper, otherwise forget_original_parent() will use reaper == father, and in that case we will hit the (correct) BUG_ON(!list_empty(&father->children)). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index ea567b78d1a..598f1eec982 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -179,9 +179,12 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) rc = sys_wait4(-1, NULL, __WALL, NULL); } while (rc != -ECHILD); - - /* Child reaper for the pid namespace is going away */ - pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL; + /* + * We can not clear ->child_reaper or leave it alone. + * There may by stealth EXIT_DEAD tasks on ->children, + * forget_original_parent() must move them somewhere. + */ + pid_ns->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper; acct_exit_ns(pid_ns); return; }