From: Eric W. Biederman Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:26:06 +0000 (-0800) Subject: pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc2~18^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8382fcac1b813ad0a4e68a838fc7ae93fa39eda0;p=pandora-kernel.git pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) The sequence: unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) clone(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_VM) Creates a new process in the new pid namespace without setting pid_ns->child_reaper. After forking this results in a NULL pointer dereference. Avoid this and other nonsense scenarios that can show up after creating a new pid namespace with unshare by adding a new check in copy_prodcess. Pointed-out-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- Reading git-diff-tree failed