proc connector: add event for process becoming session leader

The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a
supervising init daemon such as Upstart.

While a daemon will normally do this as part of the process of becoming a
daemon, it is rare for its children to do so.  When the children do, it is
nearly always a sign that the child should be considered detached from the
parent and not supervised along with it.

The poster-child example is OpenSSH; the per-login children call setsid()
so that they may control the pty connected to them.  If the primary daemon
dies or is restarted, we do not want to consider the per-login children
and want to respawn the primary daemon without killing the children.

This patch adds a new PROC_SID_EVENT and associated structure to the
proc_event event_data union, it arranges for this to be emitted when the
special PIDTYPE_SID pid is set.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cn_proc.h b/include/linux/cn_proc.h
index b8125b2eb665..47dac5ea8d3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cn_proc.h
+++ b/include/linux/cn_proc.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct proc_event {
                 PROC_EVENT_EXEC = 0x00000002,
                 PROC_EVENT_UID  = 0x00000004,
                 PROC_EVENT_GID  = 0x00000040,
+                PROC_EVENT_SID  = 0x00000080,
                 /* "next" should be 0x00000400 */
                 /* "last" is the last process event: exit */
                 PROC_EVENT_EXIT = 0x80000000
@@ -89,6 +90,11 @@ struct proc_event {
                         } e;
                 } id;
 
+                struct sid_proc_event {
+                        __kernel_pid_t process_pid;
+                        __kernel_pid_t process_tgid;
+                } sid;
+
                 struct exit_proc_event {
                         __kernel_pid_t process_pid;
                         __kernel_pid_t process_tgid;
@@ -102,6 +108,7 @@ struct proc_event {
 void proc_fork_connector(struct task_struct *task);
 void proc_exec_connector(struct task_struct *task);
 void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id);
+void proc_sid_connector(struct task_struct *task);
 void proc_exit_connector(struct task_struct *task);
 #else
 static inline void proc_fork_connector(struct task_struct *task)
@@ -114,6 +121,9 @@ static inline void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task,
                                      int which_id)
 {}
 
+static inline void proc_sid_connector(struct task_struct *task)
+{}
+
 static inline void proc_exit_connector(struct task_struct *task)
 {}
 #endif  /* CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS */