From: Rafael J. Wysocki Tasks should go to the refrigerator only if explicitly requested to do that by the freezer and not as a result of inheriting the TIF_FREEZE flag set from the parent. Make it happen. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham --- kernel/fork.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/fork.c 2007-07-30 22:13:46.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c 2007-07-30 22:17:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ static inline void copy_flags(unsigned l if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE)) p->ptrace = 0; p->flags = new_flags; + clear_freeze_flag(p); } asmlinkage long sys_set_tid_address(int __user *tidptr)