[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-reset.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-reset.c
index 79ddb4605659..fd0932b2d521 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-reset.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-reset.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static inline void ip32_power_button(void)
 	if (has_panicked)
 		return;
 
-	if (shuting_down || kill_proc(1, SIGINT, 1)) {
+	if (shuting_down || kill_cad_pid(SIGINT, 1)) {
 		/* No init process or button pressed twice.  */
 		ip32_machine_power_off();
 	}