[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9ba959e..3853023 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1065,6 +1065,8 @@
return tsk->pid == 1;
}
+extern struct pid *cad_pid;
+
extern void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk);
#define get_task_struct(tsk) do { atomic_inc(&(tsk)->usage); } while(0)
@@ -1292,6 +1294,11 @@
extern int do_sigaction(int, struct k_sigaction *, struct k_sigaction *);
extern int do_sigaltstack(const stack_t __user *, stack_t __user *, unsigned long);
+static inline int kill_cad_pid(int sig, int priv)
+{
+ return kill_pid(cad_pid, sig, priv);
+}
+
/* These can be the second arg to send_sig_info/send_group_sig_info. */
#define SEND_SIG_NOINFO ((struct siginfo *) 0)
#define SEND_SIG_PRIV ((struct siginfo *) 1)