"case 0" in free_pid() assumes that disable_pid_allocation() should
clear PIDNS_HASH_ADDING before the last pid goes away. However this
doesn't happen if the 1st fork() fails to create the child reaper
which should call disable_pid_allocation().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/pid.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 66505c1..606a212 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -272,6 +272,11 @@ void free_pid(struct pid *pid)
                         */
                        wake_up_process(ns->child_reaper);
                        break;
+               case PIDNS_HASH_ADDING:
+                       /* Handle a fork failure of the first process */
+                       WARN_ON(ns->child_reaper);
+                       ns->nr_hashed = 0;
+                       /* fall through */
                case 0:
                        schedule_work(&ns->proc_work);
                        break;
-- 
1.5.5.1


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