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* [PATCH 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit
@ 2018-11-27 22:54 Jürg Billeter
  2018-11-27 22:54 ` [PATCH] prctl: add PR_{GET,SET}_KILL_DESCENDANTS_ON_EXIT Jürg Billeter
  2019-01-18 13:11 ` [RESEND PATCH " Jürg Billeter
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Jürg Billeter @ 2018-11-27 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Oleg Nesterov, Thomas Gleixner, Eric Biederman, Kees Cook,
	Andy Lutomirski, linux-api, linux-kernel, Jürg 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].

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

Jürg 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(+)

-- 
2.19.2


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2018-11-27 22:54 [PATCH 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit Jürg Billeter
2018-11-27 22:54 ` [PATCH] prctl: add PR_{GET,SET}_KILL_DESCENDANTS_ON_EXIT Jürg Billeter
2018-11-28 14:42   ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-28 15:23     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-29 12:34       ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-29 15:41         ` Jürg Billeter
2018-11-30 10:33           ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-12-01  4:28             ` Kees Cook
2018-11-30  8:00   ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit Jürg Billeter
2018-11-30  8:00     ` [PATCH v2 1/1] prctl: add PR_{GET,SET}_KILL_DESCENDANTS_ON_EXIT Jürg Billeter
2018-11-30 11:22       ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-30 13:40       ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-01 10:39         ` Jürg Billeter
2018-12-01 12:28           ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-01 13:57             ` Jürg Billeter
2018-12-06 15:54     ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit Jürg Billeter
2019-01-18 13:11 ` [RESEND PATCH " Jürg Billeter
2019-01-18 13:11   ` [RESEND PATCH v2 1/1] prctl: add PR_{GET,SET}_KILL_DESCENDANTS_ON_EXIT Jürg Billeter
2019-01-29  1:23     ` Andrew Morton

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