exit_notify() does exit_task_namespaces() after forget_original_parent(). This was needed to ensure that ->nsproxy can't be cleared prematurely, an exiting child we are going to reparent can do do_notify_parent() and use the parent's (ours) pid_ns.
However, after 32084504 "pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent" ->nsproxy != NULL is no longer needed, we rely on task_active_pid_ns(). Move exit_task_namespaces() from exit_notify() to do_exit(), after exit_fs() and before exit_task_work(). This solves the problem reported by Andrey, free_ipc_ns()->shm_destroy() does fput() which needs task_work_add(). Note: this particular problem can be fixed if we change fput(), and that change makes sense anyway. But there is another reason to move the callsite. The original reason for exit_task_namespaces() from the middle of exit_notify() was subtle and it has already gone away, now this looks confusing. And this allows us do simplify exit_notify(), we can avoid unlock/lock(tasklist) and we can use ->exit_state instead of PF_EXITING in forget_original_parent(). Reported-by: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 8fc3c8f..c623cd3 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -644,7 +644,6 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead) * jobs, send them a SIGHUP and then a SIGCONT. (POSIX 3.2.2.2) */ forget_original_parent(tsk); - exit_task_namespaces(tsk); write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); if (group_dead) @@ -790,6 +789,7 @@ void do_exit(long code) exit_shm(tsk); exit_files(tsk); exit_fs(tsk); + exit_task_namespaces(tsk); exit_task_work(tsk); check_stack_usage(); exit_thread(); -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/