Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 2010 14:08:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0) |
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On Mon, 10 May 2010 21:49:17 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > Mathias Krause reports that a buggy (or special) /sbin/init can > crash the kernel if it sends a signal to its pgrp/sid before it > changes its initial (0,0) pids. See the changelog for 1/4. > > git-bisect blames "start the global /sbin/init with 0,0 special pids" > commit 430c623121ea88ca80595c99fdc63b7f8a803ae5, but in fact the > problem was caused by another change, see 2/4. > > The patches do not depend on each other, 3/4 fixes another problem, > 4/4 is purely cosmetic. >
Do you see a need to merge these into 2.6.34? (I don't)
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