Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 08/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Subject: [PATCH] Allow signalling container-init | > | > Only the global-init process must be special - any other container-init | > process must be killable to prevent run-away processes in the system. | | I think you are right, but.... | | > --- lx26-23-rc1-mm1.orig/kernel/signal.c 2007-08-07 13:52:12.000000000 -0700 | > +++ lx26-23-rc1-mm1/kernel/signal.c 2007-08-08 15:09:27.000000000 -0700 | > @@ -1861,11 +1861,9 @@ relock: | > continue; | > | > /* | > - * Init of a pid space gets no signals it doesn't want from | > - * within that pid space. It can of course get signals from | > - * its parent pid space. | > + * Global init gets no signals it doesn't want. | > */ | > - if (current == task_child_reaper(current)) | > + if (is_global_init(current->group_leader)) | > continue; | | ...this breaks exec() from /sbin/init. Note that de_thread() kills other | sub-threads with SIGKILL. With this patch de_thread() will hang waiting | for other threads to die.
Again for threaded-init I guess :-( Well, we discussed last week about allowing non-root users to clone their pid namespace. The user can then create a container-init and this process would become immune to signal even by a root user ? | | I think it is better to not change the current behaviour which is not | perfect (buggy), until we actually protect /sbin/init from unwanted | signals. Can we preserve the existing behavior by checking only the main thread of global init (i.e pass in 'current' rather than 'current->group_leader' to is_global_init()) ? | | (That said, I am not sure what behaviour is better (worse :), with or | without this patch) | | Oleg. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
