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 --- fs/exec.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index c7397c46ad6d..d0ecea0781f7 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -660,12 +660,23 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) struct dentry *proc_dentry1, *proc_dentry2; unsigned long ptrace; + leader = current->group_leader; + /* + * If our leader is the child_reaper become + * the child_reaper and resend SIGKILL signal. + */ + if (unlikely(leader == child_reaper)) { + write_lock(&tasklist_lock); + child_reaper = current; + zap_other_threads(current); + write_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + } + /* * Wait for the thread group leader to be a zombie. * It should already be zombie at this point, most * of the time. */ - leader = current->group_leader; while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE) yield(); -- cgit v1.2.2