Commit e5a47386 authored Sep 23, 2009 by Sukadev Bhattiprolu Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 24, 2009

pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination



CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model.  For
consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable
CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
pid namespaces are clear.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 123be07b

kernel/pid_namespace.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ struct pid_namespace copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace old
		{
		if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWPID))
		return get_pid_ns(old_ns);
		if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
		if (flags & (CLONE_THREAD\|CLONE_PARENT))
		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
		return create_pid_namespace(old_ns);
		}

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