From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [RFC][PATCH 09/14] Save leaders struct pid before detach_pid() Save the struct pid of the thread group leader before detaching our pid. See comments in the code below for more details. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: lx26-21-rc3-mm2/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- lx26-21-rc3-mm2.orig/fs/exec.c 2007-03-20 15:55:52.000000000 -0700 +++ lx26-21-rc3-mm2/fs/exec.c 2007-03-20 17:17:38.000000000 -0700 @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct struct sighand_struct *newsighand, *oldsighand = tsk->sighand; spinlock_t *lock = &oldsighand->siglock; struct task_struct *leader = NULL; + struct pid *leader_pid; int count; /* @@ -698,10 +699,24 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct * The old leader becomes a thread of the this thread group. * Note: The old leader also uses this pid until release_task * is called. Odd but simple and correct. + * Note: Support for multiple pid namespaces implies that there + * can be multiple processes with a given pid_t value, + * and so, find_pid() needs/uses a notion of "current" + * pid namespace to select the appropriate process to + * return. + * + * Since the current pid namespace of a process is stored + * in its pid->pid_nrs list, if we detach/free our struct + * pid, we would have no way of finding our current pid + * namespace and so no way of finding the leader pid. + * + * To work around, find the leader pid, before detaching + * our pid from the task. */ + leader_pid = find_pid(leader->pid); detach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID); tsk->pid = leader->pid; - attach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID, find_pid(tsk->pid)); + attach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID, leader_pid); transfer_pid(leader, tsk, PIDTYPE_PGID); transfer_pid(leader, tsk, PIDTYPE_SID); list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &tsk->tasks); _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
