From 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cedric Le Goater Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:19:00 -0700 Subject: [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 Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index a79ccf9..8020fb2 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, -- cgit v1.1