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pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
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Using task_active_pid_ns is more robust because it works even after we
have called exit_namespaces.  This change allows us to have parent
processes that are zombies.  Normally a zombie parent processes is crazy
and the last thing you would want to have but in the case of not letting
the init process of a pid namespace be reaped until all of it's children
are dead and reaped a zombie parent process is exactly what we want.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ebiederm authored and torvalds committed Jun 1, 2012
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11 changes: 5 additions & 6 deletions kernel/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -1656,19 +1656,18 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
info.si_signo = sig;
info.si_errno = 0;
/*
* we are under tasklist_lock here so our parent is tied to
* us and cannot exit and release its namespace.
* We are under tasklist_lock here so our parent is tied to
* us and cannot change.
*
* the only it can is to switch its nsproxy with sys_unshare,
* bu uncharing pid namespaces is not allowed, so we'll always
* see relevant namespace
* task_active_pid_ns will always return the same pid namespace
* until a task passes through release_task.
*
* write_lock() currently calls preempt_disable() which is the
* same as rcu_read_lock(), but according to Oleg, this is not
* correct to rely on this
*/
rcu_read_lock();
info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, tsk->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns);
info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, task_active_pid_ns(tsk->parent));
info.si_uid = from_kuid_munged(task_cred_xxx(tsk->parent, user_ns),
task_uid(tsk));
rcu_read_unlock();
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