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pid: reject allocations through dead ancestor pid namespaces
authorJérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:10:11 +0000 (19:10 +0000)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:56:30 +0000 (12:56 +0200)
commitb64a9f67e082e04835ddd69d422a25168d69375b
tree66860d191c2ba5e301f81d36536be858d48bd36b
parent86bcfe2e37cee93bb495ecd3238116ffd21183e9
pid: reject allocations through dead ancestor pid namespaces

alloc_pid() checks PIDNS_ADDING only on the leaf pid namespace before
making a new struct pid visible in every ancestor namespace. That is
insufficient when an unborn descendant pid namespace outlives an
ancestor whose init task has already exited. The descendant can still be
initialized later through setns(), and the new pid is then published
into the dead ancestor as well.

Keep the existing ENOMEM behavior, but require PIDNS_ADDING to be set in
every namespace that will receive the new pid before publishing any of
them. This preserves the invariant that free_pid() never decrements
pid_allocated in a namespace whose child_reaper is no longer live.

Fixes: a3bdc23ba8ea ("pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created")
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
kernel/pid.c