[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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 3a4776e8f16e..2314867ae34f 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fs_overflowgid);
  */
 
 int C_A_D = 1;
-int cad_pid = 1;
+struct pid *cad_pid;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cad_pid);
 
 /*
  *      Notifier list for kernel code which wants to be called
@@ -773,10 +774,9 @@ void ctrl_alt_del(void)
         if (C_A_D)
                 schedule_work(&cad_work);
         else
-                kill_proc(cad_pid, SIGINT, 1);
+                kill_cad_pid(SIGINT, 1);
 }
         
-
 /*
  * Unprivileged users may change the real gid to the effective gid
  * or vice versa.  (BSD-style)