From: Oleg Nesterov A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and __exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/exit.c~wait_task_zombie-remove-unneeded-child-signal-check kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~wait_task_zombie-remove-unneeded-child-signal-check +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct task_ return 0; } - if (likely(p->real_parent == p->parent) && likely(p->signal)) { + if (likely(p->real_parent == p->parent)) { struct signal_struct *psig; struct signal_struct *sig; _