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Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:40:15 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure
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On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> There are crazy code paths like daemonize()
> >
> > Forget. It has no callers anymore, should be killed. A user-space process
> > should never use kernel_thread() and thus daemonize() is not needed.
>
> Good point.  Oleg do you think you can send in the patches to kill
> daemonize.

Yes, will do. I am waiting until the last user in arch/powerpc goes
away, the patch is already in mm.

Oleg.