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SubjectRe: + daemonize-detach-from-current-namespace.patch added to -mm tree
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
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> I am beginning to suspect that we will want to fix kernel_thread so it
> creates copies of the init_task rather than copies of whatever random
> user space process we happen to be a member of at the time. With an
> enhanced kernel_thread this problem could more easily avoided, as
> we add additional namespaces to the kernel.

You wouldn't believe the problems we had with kernel_thread followed by
call_usermodehelper() due to inheritance of random stuff from the userspace
parent.

A suitable solution is to stop using kernel_thread(), migrate to the
kthread API - that way the threads are parented by keventd which is a known
and good environment.

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