clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread()
Spotted by Hiroshi Shimamoto who also provided the test-case below.
copy_process() uses signal->count as a reference counter, but it is not.
This test case
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <pthread.h>
	void *null_thread(void *p)
	{
		for (;;)
			sleep(1);
		return NULL;
	}
	void *exec_thread(void *p)
	{
		execl("/bin/true", "/bin/true", NULL);
		return null_thread(p);
	}
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		for (;;) {
			pid_t pid;
			int ret, status;
			pid = fork();
			if (pid < 0)
				break;
			if (!pid) {
				pthread_t tid;
				pthread_create(&tid, NULL, exec_thread, NULL);
				for (;;)
					pthread_create(&tid, NULL, null_thread, NULL);
			}
			do {
				ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
			} while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
		}
		return 0;
	}
quickly creates an unkillable task.
If copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) races with de_thread()
copy_signal()->atomic(signal->count) breaks the signal->notify_count
logic, and the execing thread can hang forever in kernel space.
Change copy_process() to increment count/live only when we know for sure
we can't fail.  In this case the forked thread will take care of its
reference to signal correctly.
If copy_process() fails, check CLONE_THREAD flag.  If it it set - do
nothing, the counters were not changed and current belongs to the same
thread group.  If it is not set, ->signal must be released in any case
(and ->count must be == 1), the forked child is the only thread in the
thread group.
We need more cleanups here, in particular signal->count should not be used
by de_thread/__exit_signal at all.  This patch only fixes the bug.
Reported-by:  Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by:
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by:  Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by:
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by:  Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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