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 --- drivers/char/snsc_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/char/snsc_event.c') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3