[PATCH] Make setsid() more robust
The core problem: setsid fails if it is called by init. The effect in 2.6.16
and the earlier kernels that have this problem is that if you do a "ps -j 1 or
ps -ej 1" you will see that init and several of it's children have process
group and session == 0. Instead of process group == session == 1. Despite
init calling setsid.
The reason it fails is that daemonize calls set_special_pids(1,1) on kernel
threads that are launched before /sbin/init is called.
The only remaining effect in that current->signal->leader == 0 for init
instead of 1. And the setsid call fails. No one has noticed because
/sbin/init does not check the return value of setsid.
In 2.4 where we don't have the pidhash table, and daemonize doesn't exist
setsid actually works for init.
I care a lot about pid == 1 not being a special case that we leave broken,
because of the container/jail work that I am doing.
- Carefully allow init (pid == 1) to call setsid despite the kernel using
its session.
- Use find_task_by_pid instead of find_pid because find_pid taking a
pidtype is going away.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 7ef7f60..0b6ec0e 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1372,18 +1372,29 @@
asmlinkage long sys_setsid(void)
{
struct task_struct *group_leader = current->group_leader;
- struct pid *pid;
+ pid_t session;
int err = -EPERM;
mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- pid = find_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID, group_leader->pid);
- if (pid)
+ /* Fail if I am already a session leader */
+ if (group_leader->signal->leader)
+ goto out;
+
+ session = group_leader->pid;
+ /* Fail if a process group id already exists that equals the
+ * proposed session id.
+ *
+ * Don't check if session id == 1 because kernel threads use this
+ * session id and so the check will always fail and make it so
+ * init cannot successfully call setsid.
+ */
+ if (session > 1 && find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_PGID, session))
goto out;
group_leader->signal->leader = 1;
- __set_special_pids(group_leader->pid, group_leader->pid);
+ __set_special_pids(session, session);
group_leader->signal->tty = NULL;
group_leader->signal->tty_old_pgrp = 0;
err = process_group(group_leader);