Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

[Mike Galbraith]

On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 19:59 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: 
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Yes, but please note that this change also checks "new == NULL", so I
> > still think the patch is correct.
> 
> Sort of.  It is correct in the sense that it performs magic checks on
> it's arguments to see that it's caller is exit_task_namespaces called
> from the fork failure path.

Yeah, did that to keep namespace fix in namespace source.  Bad idea even
with circles and arrows "hey, I'm an unborn red-headed stepchild".

-Mike



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