[PATCH] detached cloning

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 01:09:44 +0200

On 04.06, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> On 04.04, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > So here goes -pre7. Hopefully the last -pre.
> >
>

Fix a crash that can be caused by a CLONE_DETACHED thread.
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Does this still apply, Ingo ?

--- linux/kernel/exit.c.orig Mon Sep 9 14:06:05 2002
+++ linux/kernel/exit.c Mon Sep 9 14:06:25 2002
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
*
*/

- if(current->exit_signal != SIGCHLD &&
+ if(current->exit_signal != SIGCHLD && current->exit_signal != -1 &&
( current->parent_exec_id != t->self_exec_id ||
current->self_exec_id != current->parent_exec_id)
&& !capable(CAP_KILL))

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