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authorBenjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>2024-09-19 14:45:05 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2024-10-10 13:37:21 +0200
commitfdb2ecd35d327a1fc6bba69b97f85b494e1f4b6b (patch)
tree72863b08a547fd22394d0b4fa7876aaef71bb13e
parent801e00d3a1b78b7f71675fae79946ff4aa3ee070 (diff)
um: Set parent death signal for winch thread/process
The winch "thread" is really a separate process. Using prctl to set PR_SET_PDEATHSIG ensures that this separate thread will be killed if the UML kernel itself dies unexpectedly and does not perform proper cleanup. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240919124511.282088-5-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c b/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
index a66e556012c4..1434114b2f34 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <signal.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include "chan_user.h"
#include <os.h>
#include <um_malloc.h>
@@ -161,6 +162,8 @@ static __noreturn int winch_thread(void *arg)
int count;
char c = 1;
+ prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL);
+
pty_fd = data->pty_fd;
pipe_fd = data->pipe_fd;
count = write(pipe_fd, &c, sizeof(c));