From 7f5d3652d469cdf9eb2365dfea7ce3fb9e1409cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] reparent_thread: fix a zombie leak if /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD If /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD and we re-parent a zombie, it is leaked. reparent_thread() does do_notify_parent() which sets ->exit_signal = -1 in this case. This means that nobody except us can reap it, the detached task is not visible to do_wait(). Change reparent_thread() to return a boolean (like __pthread_detach) to indicate that the thread is dead and must be released. Also change forget_original_parent() to add the child to ptrace_dead list in this case. The naming becomes insane, the next patch does the cleanup. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed