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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a4204aaba8a2..576949ce5665 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -495,18 +495,16 @@ static struct task_struct *find_new_reaper(struct task_struct *father) if (father->signal->has_child_subreaper) { struct task_struct *reaper; - /* - * Find the first ancestor marked as child_subreaper. - * Note that the code below checks same_thread_group(reaper, - * pid_ns->child_reaper). This is what we need to DTRT in a - * PID namespace. However we still need the check above, see - * http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131385460420380 + * Find the first ->is_child_subreaper ancestor in our pid_ns. + * We start from father to ensure we can not look into another + * namespace, this is safe because all its threads are dead. */ for (reaper = father; - reaper != &init_task; + !same_thread_group(reaper, pid_ns->child_reaper); reaper = reaper->real_parent) { - if (same_thread_group(reaper, pid_ns->child_reaper)) + /* call_usermodehelper() descendants need this check */ + if (reaper == &init_task) break; if (!reaper->signal->is_child_subreaper) continue; |