[PATCH] Make setsid more robust.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 15:02:59 EST



- Carefully allow init (pid == 1) to call setsid despite the kernel using
it's 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


---

Andrew this can replaces my fork-allow-init-to-become-a-session-leader patch.

kernel/sys.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

a051dfe3df38b6cb1cc11209f1f8274531d761e3
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 6a8157e..5831641 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1384,18 +1384,29 @@ asmlinkage long sys_getsid(pid_t pid)
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);
--
1.2.2.g709a-dirty

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