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authorCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>2006-10-02 02:19:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:25 -0700
commit9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 (patch)
treea68fe051b39f8f8e8be469cbd3c2f653b9b71a9d /include/linux
parent1a657f78dcc8ea7c53eaa1f2a45ea2315738c15f (diff)
[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 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9ba959e3426..38530232d92 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1065,6 +1065,8 @@ static inline int is_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
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 send_group_sigqueue(int, struct sigqueue *, struct task_struct *);
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)