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fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for init

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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>
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu 2009-09-23 15:57:20 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8d65af789f
commit 123be07b0b
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@ -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;