[PATCH v2 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit

[JÃrg Billeter]

This patch adds a new prctl to kill all descendant processes on exit.
See commit message for details of the prctl.

This is a replacement of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG_PROC I proposed last year [1].
In the following discussion, Oleg suggested this approach.

The motivation for this is to provide a lightweight mechanism to prevent
stray processes. There is also a related Bugzilla entry [2].

PID namespaces can also be used to prevent stray processes, of course.
However, they are not quite as lightweight as they typically also
require a new mount namespace to be able to mount a new /proc.  And they
require CAP_SYS_ADMIN.  User namespaces can help to gain CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
however, that further increases the overhead and the other effects of
the user namespace may not be desired.

PID 1 in PID namespaces also exhibits non-standard signal behavior
(SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) [3].

Changes in v2:
  - Use bool instead of bitfield to avoid race with
    PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20170929123058.48924-1-j@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43300
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20180803144021.56920-2-j@xxxxxxxxx/

JÃrg Billeter (1):
  prctl: add PR_{GET,SET}_KILL_DESCENDANTS_ON_EXIT

 fs/exec.c                    |  6 ++++++
 include/linux/sched/signal.h |  3 +++
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h   |  4 ++++
 kernel/exit.c                | 12 ++++++++++++
 kernel/sys.c                 | 11 +++++++++++
 security/apparmor/lsm.c      |  1 +
 security/selinux/hooks.c     |  3 +++
 7 files changed, 40 insertions(+)

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