Re: [uml-devel] How to reliably kill all vmlinux processes for a single VM?

[Richard W.M. J. <rj...@re...>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:04:01PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> OK, I understand what's going wrong and how to reproduce the
> signal-to-parent problem.  It does look like a bug in vmlinux.
> 
> It happens if the init process (PID 1) inside the VM gets a segfault.

To add an additional data-point, applying the attached patch causes
the rogue SIGTERM-to-parent signal to disappear.  So at least we know
where it comes from!

Rich.

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