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/parisc/power.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/parisc') diff --git a/drivers/parisc/power.c b/drivers/parisc/power.c index fad5a33bf0fa..4a9f025a6b58 100644 --- a/drivers/parisc/power.c +++ b/drivers/parisc/power.c @@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ static void deferred_poweroff(void *dummy) { - extern int cad_pid; /* from kernel/sys.c */ - if (kill_proc(cad_pid, SIGINT, 1)) { + if (kill_cad_pid(SIGINT, 1)) { /* just in case killing init process failed */ machine_power_off(); } -- cgit v1.2.3