From: Pavel Emelyanov The ia64 has its own sys_ptrace implementation and it was overlooked when the pid namespaces patches were sent. Use find_task_by_vpid() in it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "Luck, Tony" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c~ia64-fix-ptrace-inside-a-namespace arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c~ia64-fix-ptrace-inside-a-namespace +++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ sys_ptrace (long request, pid_t pid, uns ret = -ESRCH; read_lock(&tasklist_lock); { - child = find_task_by_pid(pid); + child = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (child) { if (peek_or_poke) child = find_thread_for_addr(child, addr); _