Re: [PATCH] 2.4 and 2.5: remove Alt-Sysrq-L

[Kasper Dupont]

Russell King wrote:
> 
> With all recent kernels, init exiting causes the last of these to trigger:
> 
> NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
> {
>         struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> 
>         if (in_interrupt())
>                 panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
>         if (!tsk->pid)
>                 panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
>         if (tsk->pid == 1)
>                 panic("Attempted to kill init!");

Why actually panic because of an attempt to kill init?

Of course a message should be printed, but after that
couldn't do_exit enter a loop where it just handles
signals and zombies?

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