[lxc-devel] CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID)

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Christian Seiler (christian at iwakd.de):
> Eric W. Biederman writes:
> >So hmm.
> >
> >Because it can do no harm, and because it is a regression let's remove
> >the CLONE_PARENT check and send it stable.
> >
> >diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> >index 086fe73..c447fbc 100644
> >--- a/kernel/fork.c
> >+++ b/kernel/fork.c
> >@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> >          * do not allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers or
> >          * parent with the forking task.
> >          */
> >-       if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_PARENT)) {
> >+       if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND)) {
> >                 if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) ||
> >                     (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
> >                                 current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
> 
> Just a short question, what happened to this patch? As far as I can
> tell, 3.13rc8 doesn't include it, neither does the current 3.12.7. This
> means that lxc-attach currently still doesn't work on 3.12 and probably
> won't work on 3.13 either... (3.11 is fine, see the previous mails in
> this thread.)

So, hm.  I didn't realize it hadn't hit upstream, because it's in the
ubuntu kernel (unfortunately wrongly attributed).

However it is in linux-next since Nov 27.

-serge