From d212503f82d7ef3b63ed20ab97bb68a69616d06c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:22:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] - fix signal->live leak in copy_process() exit_signal() (called from copy_process's error path) should decrement ->signal->live, otherwise forking process will miss 'group_dead' in do_exit(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/signal.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index f2b96b08fb447..6904bbbfe1169 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -406,6 +406,8 @@ void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) void exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) { + atomic_dec(&tsk->signal->live); + write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); __exit_signal(tsk); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); -- 2.47.2