freezer: prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:04:45 +0000 (03:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:18 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
Tasks should go to the refrigerator only if explicitly requested to do that by
the freezer and not as a result of inheriting the TIF_FREEZE flag set from the
parent.  Make it happen.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/fork.c

index 490495a..7e455a9 100644 (file)
@@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ static inline void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
        if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE))
                p->ptrace = 0;
        p->flags = new_flags;
+       clear_freeze_flag(p);
 }
 
 asmlinkage long sys_set_tid_address(int __user *tidptr)