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    SubjectRe: 2.6.23-mm1 thread exit_group issue
    On 10/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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    > On 10/12, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > >
    > > Bisection shows that this problem is caused by these two patches:
    > >
    > > pid-namespaces-allow-cloning-of-new-namespace.patch
    >
    > This? http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=118712242002039
    >
    > Pavel, this patch has a subtle difference compared to what we discussed on
    > containers list. It moves put_user(parent_tidptr) from copy_process() to
    > do_fork(), so we don't report child's pid if copy_process() failed. I do
    > not think this is bad, but Eric seems to disagree with such a change.
    >
    > But I can't understand why Andrew sees the same problem _after_ this patch!
    >
    > And which patch removed the "put_user(nr, parent_tidptr)" chunk?

    Aha. I am looking at
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/broken-out/pid-namespaces-allow-cloning-of-new-namespace.patch

    Looks like the original patch was damaged somehow, it doesn't have the
    "put_user(nr, parent_tidptr)" code.

    Oleg.

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