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

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed May 02 2012 - 08:41:31 EST


On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On 04/29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> There are crazy code paths like daemonize()
> >
> > Forget. It has no callers anymore, should be killed. A user-space process
> > should never use kernel_thread() and thus daemonize() is not needed.
>
> Good point. Oleg do you think you can send in the patches to kill
> daemonize.

Yes, will do. I am waiting until the last user in arch/powerpc goes
away, the patch is already in mm.

Oleg.

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