tty_io: Use group_send_sig_info in __do_SACK to note it is a session being killed
Replace send_sig and force_sig in __do_SAK with group_send_sig_info
the general helper for sending a signal to a process group. This is
wordier but it allows specifying PIDTYPE_SID so that the signal code
knows the signal went to a session.
Both force_sig() and send_sig(..., 1) specify SEND_SIG_PRIV and the
new call of group_send_sig_info does that explicitly. This is enough
to ensure even a pid namespace init is killed.
The global init remains unkillable. The guarantee that __do_SAK tries
to provide is a clean path to login to a machine. As the global init is
unkillable, if it chooses to hold open a tty it can violate this
guarantee. A technique other than killing processes would be needed
to provide this guarantee to userspace.
The only difference between force_sig and send_sig when sending
SIGKILL is that SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE is cleared. This has no affect on
the processing of a signal sent with SEND_SIG_PRIV by any process, making
it unnecessary, and not behavior that needs to be preserved.
force_sig was used originally because it did not take as many locks as
send_sig. Today send_sig, force_sig and group_send_sig_info take the
same locks when delivering a signal.
group_send_sig_info also contains a permission check that force_sig
and send_sig do not. However the presence of SEND_SIG_PRIV makes the
permission check a noop. So the permission check does not result
in any behavioral differences.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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