Sorry about that. Dont know how this escaped.  It was probably hiding between
all the sparse warnings I get in kernel/* and a lack of knowledge in this
area.
Here is a new version:



since commit 02b51df1b07b4e9ca823c89284e704cadb323cd1 (proc connector: add event 
for process becoming session leader) we have the following warning:
Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143
[...]
Krnl PSW : 0404c00180000000 00000000001481d4 (local_bh_enable+0xb0/0xe0)
[...]
Call Trace:
([<000000013fe04100>] 0x13fe04100)
 [<000000000048a946>] sk_filter+0x9a/0xd0
 [<000000000049d938>] netlink_broadcast+0x2c0/0x53c
 [<00000000003ba9ae>] cn_netlink_send+0x272/0x2b0
 [<00000000003baef0>] proc_sid_connector+0xc4/0xd4
 [<0000000000142604>] __set_special_pids+0x58/0x90
 [<0000000000159938>] sys_setsid+0xb4/0xd8
 [<00000000001187fe>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
 [<00000041616cb266>] 0x41616cb266

The warning is
--->    WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled());

The network code must not be called with disabled interrupts but
sys_setsid holds the tasklist_lock with spinlock_irq while calling
the connector. 
After a discussion we agreed that we can move proc_sid_connector
from __set_special_pids to sys_setsid.
We also agreed that it is sufficient to change the check from
task_session(curr) != pid into err > 0, since if we don't change the
session, this means we were already the leader and return -EPERM.

One last thing:
There is also daemonize(), and some people might want to get a
notification in that case. Since daemonize() is only needed if a user
space does kernel_thread this does not look important (and there seems
to be no consensus if this connector should be called in daemonize). If
we really want this, we can add proc_sid_connector to daemonize() in an
additional patch (Scott?)

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <redacted>
CCed: Scott James Remnant [off-list ref]
CCed: Matt Helsley [off-list ref]
CCed: David S. Miller [off-list ref]
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <redacted>
---
 kernel/exit.c |    4 +---
 kernel/sys.c  |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/exit.c
===================================================================

--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/exit.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/exit.c

@@ -359,10 +359,8 @@ void __set_special_pids(struct pid *pid)
 {
 	struct task_struct *curr = current->group_leader;
 
-	if (task_session(curr) != pid) {
+	if (task_session(curr) != pid)
 		change_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_SID, pid);
-		proc_sid_connector(curr);
-	}
 
 	if (task_pgrp(curr) != pid)
 		change_pid(curr, PIDTYPE_PGID, pid);

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c
===================================================================

--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sys.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c

@@ -1110,6 +1110,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(setsid)
 	err = session;
 out:
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (err > 0)
+		proc_sid_connector(group_leader);
 	return err;
 }