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| author | Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> | 2006-10-02 11:19:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 16:57:25 +0200 |
| commit | 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 (patch) | |
| tree | a68fe051b39f8f8e8be469cbd3c2f653b9b71a9d /drivers/char | |
| parent | [PATCH] introduce get_task_pid() to fix unsafe get_pid() (diff) | |
| download | linux-9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6.tar.xz linux-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 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/nwbutton.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/snsc_event.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/nwbutton.c b/drivers/char/nwbutton.c index 7c57ebfa8640..ea1aa7764f8e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nwbutton.c +++ b/drivers/char/nwbutton.c @@ -127,9 +127,8 @@ static void button_consume_callbacks (int bpcount) static void button_sequence_finished (unsigned long parameters) { #ifdef CONFIG_NWBUTTON_REBOOT /* Reboot using button is enabled */ - if (button_press_count == reboot_count) { - kill_proc (1, SIGINT, 1); /* Ask init to reboot us */ - } + if (button_press_count == reboot_count) + kill_cad_pid(SIGINT, 1); /* Ask init to reboot us */ #endif /* CONFIG_NWBUTTON_REBOOT */ button_consume_callbacks (button_press_count); bcount = sprintf (button_output_buffer, "%d\n", button_press_count); diff --git a/drivers/char/snsc_event.c b/drivers/char/snsc_event.c index d12d4f629cec..864854c58866 100644 --- a/drivers/char/snsc_event.c +++ b/drivers/char/snsc_event.c @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ scdrv_dispatch_event(char *event, int len) " Sending SIGPWR to init...\n"); /* give a SIGPWR signal to init proc */ - kill_proc(1, SIGPWR, 0); + kill_cad_pid(SIGPWR, 0); } else { /* print to system log */ printk("%s|$(0x%x)%s\n", severity, esp_code, desc); |