From fef23e7fbb11a0a78cd61935f7056bc2b237995a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:10:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] exec: allow init to exec from any thread. After looking at the problem of init calling exec some more I figured out an easy way to make the code work. The actual symptom without out this patch is that all threads will die except pid == 1, and the thread calling exec. The thread calling exec will wait forever for pid == 1 to die. Since pid == 1 does not install a handler for SIGKILL it will never die. This modifies the tests for init from current->pid == 1 to the equivalent current == child_reaper. And then it causes exec in the ugly case to modify child_reaper. The only weird symptom is that you wind up with an init process that doesn't have the oldest start time on the box. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a8c7efc7a681..223a8802b665 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!"); if (unlikely(!tsk->pid)) panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!"); - if (unlikely(tsk->pid == 1)) + if (unlikely(tsk == child_reaper)) panic("Attempted to kill init!"); if (unlikely(current->ptrace & PT_TRACE_EXIT)) { -- cgit v1.2.3