Re: [RFC][PATCH] Disable CLONE_PARENT for init

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

| This won't fix the problem. The child won't autoreap itself if ->exit_signal
| != SIGCHLD.
| 
| > If you want to make this change because of container-init issues, I think
| > you should just say so independent of this global-init case.
| 
| Yes, agreed, the comment looks confusing.
| 
| Oleg

Here is an updated patch with comments fixed.

Roland pls ack again if this is better.

---

Disable CLONE_PARENT for init.

When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a
multi-rooted process tree. Besides if the siblings of init exit, the
SIGCHLD is not sent to init process resulting in the zombies sticking
around indefinitely.

Changelog[v3]:
	- [Roland, Oleg] Simplify comment describing the change
Changelog[v2]:
	- Simplify patch description based on comments from Eric Biederman
	  and Oleg Nesterov.
	- [Oleg Nesterov] Use SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE instead of is_global_init()

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Index: linux-mmotm/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- linux-mmotm.orig/kernel/fork.c	2009-06-30 23:01:06.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-mmotm/kernel/fork.c	2009-07-01 14:43:10.000000000 -0700
@@ -974,6 +974,14 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_VM))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	/*
+	 * 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;