CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For

consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable
CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
pid namespaces are clear.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

kernel/pid_namespace.c

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old
 {
 	if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWPID))
 		return get_pid_ns(old_ns);
-	if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
+	if (flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	return create_pid_namespace(old_ns);
 }