Name

reparent_to_init — Reparent the calling kernel thread to the init task

Synopsis

void reparent_to_init (  void);

Arguments

void

no arguments

Description

of the pid space that the thread belongs to.

If a kernel thread is launched as a result of a system call, or if it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to init so that it is correctly cleaned up on exit.

The various task state such as scheduling policy and priority may have been inherited from a user process, so we reset them to sane values here.

NOTE that reparent_to_init gives the caller full capabilities.