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| author | Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> | 2006-10-02 02:19:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 07:57:25 -0700 |
| commit | 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 (patch) | |
| tree | a68fe051b39f8f8e8be469cbd3c2f653b9b71a9d /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 1a657f78dcc8ea7c53eaa1f2a45ea2315738c15f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6.tar.gz lwn-9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6.zip | |
[PATCH] replace cad_pid by a struct pid
There are a few places in the kernel where the init task is signaled. The
ctrl+alt+del sequence is one them. It kills a task, usually init, using a
cached pid (cad_pid).
This patch replaces the pid_t by a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around
problem. The struct pid is initialized at boot time in init() and can be
modified through systctl with
/proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid
[ I haven't found any distro using it ? ]
It also introduces a small helper routine kill_cad_pid() which is used
where it seemed ok to use cad_pid instead of pid 1.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index a79ccf9d113b..8020fb273c4f 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ extern int sysrq_enabled; extern int core_uses_pid; extern int suid_dumpable; extern char core_pattern[]; -extern int cad_pid; extern int pid_max; extern int min_free_kbytes; extern int printk_ratelimit_jiffies; @@ -137,6 +136,9 @@ static int parse_table(int __user *, int, void __user *, size_t __user *, static int proc_do_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); +static int proc_do_cad_pid(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); + static ctl_table root_table[]; static struct ctl_table_header root_table_header = { root_table, LIST_HEAD_INIT(root_table_header.ctl_entry) }; @@ -543,10 +545,10 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = { { .ctl_name = KERN_CADPID, .procname = "cad_pid", - .data = &cad_pid, + .data = NULL, .maxlen = sizeof (int), .mode = 0600, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = &proc_do_cad_pid, }, { .ctl_name = KERN_MAX_THREADS, @@ -2427,6 +2429,28 @@ proc_minmax: } #endif +static int proc_do_cad_pid(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct pid *new_pid; + pid_t tmp; + int r; + + tmp = pid_nr(cad_pid); + + r = __do_proc_dointvec(&tmp, table, write, filp, buffer, + lenp, ppos, NULL, NULL); + if (r || !write) + return r; + + new_pid = find_get_pid(tmp); + if (!new_pid) + return -ESRCH; + + put_pid(xchg(&cad_pid, new_pid)); + return 0; +} + #else /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ int proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, |