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Commit c876ad76 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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pidns: Stop pid allocation when init dies



Oleg pointed out that in a pid namespace the sequence.
- pid 1 becomes a zombie
- setns(thepidns), fork,...
- reaping pid 1.
- The injected processes exiting.

Can lead to processes attempting access their child reaper and
instead following a stale pointer.

That waitpid for init can return before all of the processes in
the pid namespace have exited is also unfortunate.

Avoid these problems by disabling the allocation of new pids in a pid
namespace when init dies, instead of when the last process in a pid
namespace is reaped.

Pointed-out-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent 8382fcac
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