[PATCH] exec: Allow init to exec from any thread.

[Eric W. Biederman]

After looking at the problem of init calling exec some more I figured
out an easy way to make the code work.

The actual symptom without out this patch is that all threads will die
except pid == 1, and the thread calling exec.  The thread calling exec
will wait forever for pid == 1 to die. 

Since pid == 1 does not install a handler for SIGKILL it will never die.

This modifies the tests for init from current->pid == 1 to the
equivalent current == child_reaper.  And then it causes exec in the
ugly case to modify child_reaper.

The only weird symptom is that you wind up with an init process that
doesn't have the oldest start time on the box. 

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


---

 fs/exec.c       |   13 ++++++++++++-
 kernel/exit.c   |    2 +-
 kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

96629b6a7cc1bdb3afdd1b5190e08e3df62bfa6a
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 62eca47..348e6ac 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -660,12 +660,23 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct 
 		struct dentry *proc_dentry1, *proc_dentry2;
 		unsigned long ptrace;
 
+		leader = current->group_leader;
+		/*
+		 * If our leader is the child_reaper become
+		 * the child_reaper and resend SIGKILL signal.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(leader == child_reaper)) {
+			write_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+			child_reaper = current;
+			zap_other_threads(current);
+			write_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+		}
+		
 		/*
 		 * Wait for the thread group leader to be a zombie.
 		 * It should already be zombie at this point, most
 		 * of the time.
 		 */
-		leader = current->group_leader;
 		while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
 			yield();
 
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 93cee36..4059b2a 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long co
 		panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
 	if (unlikely(!tsk->pid))
 		panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
-	if (unlikely(tsk->pid == 1))
+	if (unlikely(tsk == child_reaper))
 		panic("Attempted to kill init!");
 	if (tsk->io_context)
 		exit_io_context();
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 20a67ae..6faf362 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2019,7 +2019,7 @@ relock:
 			continue;
 
 		/* Init gets no signals it doesn't want.  */
-		if (current->pid == 1)
+		if (current == child_reaper)
 			continue;
 
 		if (sig_kernel_stop(signr)) {
-- 
1.1.5.g3480

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