commit ee0acf90d320c29916ba8c5c1b2e908d81f5057d
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Sun Jan 08 01:03:53 2006 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Sun Jan 08 20:14:01 2006 -0800
tree def952e2e3ebf2b5ba10585055f12ef0cbed17f2
parent 9a5d3023e626a0baf86ac6b892c983b3db13f22b

[PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threads

setpgid(0, pgid) or setpgid(forked_child_pid, pgid) does not work unless
the calling process is a thread_group_leader().

'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this
behaviour is a bug.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/sys.c

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index d8e49e6..43e5572 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1090,10 +1090,11 @@
 asmlinkage long sys_setpgid(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
+	struct task_struct *group_leader = current->group_leader;
 	int err = -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!pid)
-		pid = current->pid;
+		pid = group_leader->pid;
 	if (!pgid)
 		pgid = pid;
 	if (pgid < 0)
@@ -1113,16 +1114,16 @@
 	if (!thread_group_leader(p))
 		goto out;
 
-	if (p->parent == current || p->real_parent == current) {
+	if (p->parent == current || p->real_parent == group_leader) {
 		err = -EPERM;
-		if (p->signal->session != current->signal->session)
+		if (p->signal->session != group_leader->signal->session)
 			goto out;
 		err = -EACCES;
 		if (p->did_exec)
 			goto out;
 	} else {
 		err = -ESRCH;
-		if (p != current)
+		if (p != group_leader)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1134,7 +1135,7 @@
 		struct task_struct *p;
 
 		do_each_task_pid(pgid, PIDTYPE_PGID, p) {
-			if (p->signal->session == current->signal->session)
+			if (p->signal->session == group_leader->signal->session)
 				goto ok_pgid;
 		} while_each_task_pid(pgid, PIDTYPE_PGID, p);
 		goto out;