[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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a8c7efc..223a880 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@
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)) {