[PATCH] vt: rework the console spawning variables

This is such a rare path it took me a while to figure out how to test
this after soring out the locking.

This patch does several things.
- The variables used are moved into a structure and declared in vt_kern.h
- A spinlock is added so we don't have SMP races updating the values.
- Instead of raw pid_t value a struct_pid is used to guard against
  pid wrap around issues, if the daemon to spawn a new console dies.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-02 02:17:13 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5feb8f5f84
commit 81af8d67d4
3 changed files with 25 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -645,13 +645,16 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
*/
case KDSIGACCEPT:
{
extern int spawnpid, spawnsig;
if (!perm || !capable(CAP_KILL))
return -EPERM;
if (!valid_signal(arg) || arg < 1 || arg == SIGKILL)
return -EINVAL;
spawnpid = current->pid;
spawnsig = arg;
spin_lock_irq(&vt_spawn_con.lock);
put_pid(vt_spawn_con.pid);
vt_spawn_con.pid = get_pid(task_pid(current));
vt_spawn_con.sig = arg;
spin_unlock_irq(&vt_spawn_con.lock);
return 0;
}