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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-05-09 02:34:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 12:30:53 -0700
commit49d769d52e16efabd3ad47b7995522fff771371d (patch)
treecf6ec2c39ae671c3f4cae34daf9d0558ca4fcf49 /kernel
parent73c279927f89561ecb45b2dfdf9314bafcfd9f67 (diff)
Change reparent_to_init to reparent_to_kthreadd
When a kernel thread calls daemonize, instead of reparenting the thread to init reparent the thread to kthreadd next to the threads created by kthread_create. This is really just a stop gap until daemonize goes away, but it does ensure no kernel threads are under init and they are all in one place that is easy to find. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f5a7abb621f3..bc982cd72743 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
@@ -254,26 +255,25 @@ static int has_stopped_jobs(struct pid *pgrp)
}
/**
- * reparent_to_init - Reparent the calling kernel thread to the init task of the pid space that the thread belongs to.
+ * reparent_to_kthreadd - Reparent the calling kernel thread to kthreadd
*
* If a kernel thread is launched as a result of a system call, or if
- * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to init so that
- * it is correctly cleaned up on exit.
+ * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to kthreadd so it
+ * isn't in the way of other processes and is correctly cleaned up on exit.
*
* The various task state such as scheduling policy and priority may have
* been inherited from a user process, so we reset them to sane values here.
*
- * NOTE that reparent_to_init() gives the caller full capabilities.
+ * NOTE that reparent_to_kthreadd() gives the caller full capabilities.
*/
-static void reparent_to_init(void)
+static void reparent_to_kthreadd(void)
{
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
ptrace_unlink(current);
/* Reparent to init */
remove_parent(current);
- current->parent = child_reaper(current);
- current->real_parent = child_reaper(current);
+ current->real_parent = current->parent = kthreadd_task;
add_parent(current);
/* Set the exit signal to SIGCHLD so we signal init on exit */
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
current->files = init_task.files;
atomic_inc(&current->files->count);
- reparent_to_init();
+ reparent_to_kthreadd();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(daemonize);