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-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c9eaf2013002..3561391ca450 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1173,10 +1173,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
/*
- * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace
- * don't allow the creation of threads.
+ * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace don't
+ * allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers with the
+ * forking task.
*/
- if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
+ if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
(task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);