Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Prevent container-inits from usingCLONE_PARENT

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Jun 18 2009 - 11:47:19 EST


On 06/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 06/17, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> >
> > @@ -974,6 +974,14 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
> > if ((clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_VM))
> > return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >
> > + /*
> > + * To keep pid namespace semantics simple, prevent container-inits
> > + * from creating siblings.
> > + */
> > + if ((clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT) &&
> > + is_container_init(current) && !is_global_init(current))
>
> Both is_ checks are not right afaics. There are per-thread. This means
> that container-init can do clone(CLONE_THREAD), and then this thread
> does CLONE_PARENT and fools copy_process().
>
> As for !is_global_init(). I never understood what should we do if the
> global init does CLONE_PARENT, this attaches another process to swapper,
> not good.

Hmm. And idle threads run with ->action[SIGHLD] == SIG_DFL, so this is
really wrong. Fortunately, we can trust the global init.

Oleg.

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