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| author | Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> | 2006-10-02 02:19:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 07:57:25 -0700 |
| commit | 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 (patch) | |
| tree | a68fe051b39f8f8e8be469cbd3c2f653b9b71a9d /drivers/char/snsc_event.c | |
| parent | 1a657f78dcc8ea7c53eaa1f2a45ea2315738c15f (diff) | |
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[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/snsc_event.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/snsc_event.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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); |