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>
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Scott James Remnant 2009-09-22 16:43:44 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 88e9d34c72
commit 02b51df1b0
3 changed files with 38 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -139,6 +139,31 @@ void proc_id_connector(struct task_struct *task, int which_id)
cn_netlink_send(msg, CN_IDX_PROC, GFP_KERNEL);
}
void proc_sid_connector(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct cn_msg *msg;
struct proc_event *ev;
struct timespec ts;
__u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
return;
msg = (struct cn_msg *)buffer;
ev = (struct proc_event *)msg->data;
get_seq(&msg->seq, &ev->cpu);
ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
ev->what = PROC_EVENT_SID;
ev->event_data.sid.process_pid = task->pid;
ev->event_data.sid.process_tgid = task->tgid;
memcpy(&msg->id, &cn_proc_event_id, sizeof(msg->id));
msg->ack = 0; /* not used */
msg->len = sizeof(*ev);
cn_netlink_send(msg, CN_IDX_PROC, GFP_KERNEL);
}
void proc_exit_connector(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct cn_msg *msg;