If the task is dead or dumping core stop messing with its fs struct. There's no point in doing that. Worst case it'll be stuck in a stale path until it calls exit_fs(). Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- fs/fs_struct.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs_struct.c b/fs/fs_struct.c index 2a98cfbedd32..34699f3b6f88 100644 --- a/fs/fs_struct.c +++ b/fs/fs_struct.c @@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ void chroot_fs_refs(const struct path *old_root, const struct path *new_root) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process_thread(g, p) { - /* leave kthreads alone */ - if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) + if (p->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_EXITING | PF_DUMPCORE)) continue; task_lock(p); -- 2.47.3