A bit of defensive programming - during development, it ocassionally
happens that a call to init_new_context is missed, resulting in
context holding a host pid of zero.  When that address space is torn
down, destroy_context does a kill(0), which instantly kills the whole
UML without any errors whatsoever.

This patch add a check for pids less than 2, to also catch 1 and
negative pids.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c        2007-12-12 
15:06:14.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-git/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c     2007-12-12 15:12:11.000000000 
-0500
@@ -164,8 +164,20 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *m
 
        if (proc_mm)
                os_close_file(mmu->id.u.mm_fd);
-       else
+       else {
+               /*
+                * If init_new_context wasn't called, this will be
+                * zero, resulting in a kill(0), which will result in the
+                * whole UML suddenly dying.  Also, cover negative and
+                * 1 cases, since they shouldn't happen either.
+                */
+               if (mmu->id.u.pid < 2) {
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "corrupt mm_context - pid = %d\n",
+                              mmu->id.u.pid);
+                       return;
+               }
                os_kill_ptraced_process(mmu->id.u.pid, 1);
+       }
 
        if (skas_needs_stub)
                free_page(mmu->id.stack);

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