commit 6e1be45aa6ba6a36c0312f65ecf311135c73001d
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Wed May 26 14:43:21 2010 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Thu May 27 09:12:47 2010 -0700
tree 3ea540e0ee249259e40e26c38215981b466075ad
parent 97101eb41d0d3c97543878ce40e0b8a8b2747ed7

check_unshare_flags: kill the bogus CLONE_SIGHAND/sig->count check

check_unshare_flags(CLONE_SIGHAND) adds CLONE_THREAD to *flags_ptr if the
task is multithreaded to ensure unshare_thread() will fail.

Not only this is a bit strange way to return the error, this is absolutely
meaningless.  If signal->count > 1 then sighand->count must be also > 1,
and unshare_sighand() will fail anyway.

In fact, all CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM checks inside sys_unshare() do not
look right.  Fortunately this code doesn't really work anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kernel/fork.c

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7701470..40cd099 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1518,14 +1518,6 @@
 		*flags_ptr |= CLONE_SIGHAND;
 
 	/*
-	 * If unsharing signal handlers and the task was created
-	 * using CLONE_THREAD, then must unshare the thread
-	 */
-	if ((*flags_ptr & CLONE_SIGHAND) &&
-	    (atomic_read(&current->signal->count) > 1))
-		*flags_ptr |= CLONE_THREAD;
-
-	/*
 	 * If unsharing namespace, must also unshare filesystem information.
 	 */
 	if (*flags_ptr & CLONE_NEWNS)