uml: don't kill pid 0
authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:31:10 +0000 (22:31 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:30 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
A bit of defensive programming - during development, it ocassionally
happens that a call to init_new_context is missed, resulting in
context holding a host pid of zero.  When that address space is torn
down, destroy_context does a kill(0), which instantly kills the whole
UML without any errors whatsoever.

This patch add a check for pids less than 2, to also catch 1 and
negative pids.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c

index e8dc854..78b3e9f 100644 (file)
@@ -164,8 +164,20 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
 
        if (proc_mm)
                os_close_file(mmu->id.u.mm_fd);
-       else
+       else {
+               /*
+                * If init_new_context wasn't called, this will be
+                * zero, resulting in a kill(0), which will result in the
+                * whole UML suddenly dying.  Also, cover negative and
+                * 1 cases, since they shouldn't happen either.
+                */
+               if (mmu->id.u.pid < 2) {
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "corrupt mm_context - pid = %d\n",
+                              mmu->id.u.pid);
+                       return;
+               }
                os_kill_ptraced_process(mmu->id.u.pid, 1);
+       }
 
        if (skas_needs_stub)
                free_page(mmu->id.stack);