Merge pull request #10159 from poettering/killall-spree-kernel-thread

killall.c fixes regarding kernel thread detection
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-10-08 20:12:18 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -23,16 +23,20 @@
static bool ignore_proc(pid_t pid, bool warn_rootfs) {
_cleanup_fclose_ FILE *f = NULL;
char c;
const char *p;
size_t count;
char c = 0;
uid_t uid;
int r;
/* We are PID 1, let's not commit suicide */
if (pid == 1)
if (pid <= 1)
return true;
/* Ignore kernel threads */
r = is_kernel_thread(pid);
if (r != 0)
return true; /* also ignore processes where we can't determine this */
r = get_process_uid(pid, &uid);
if (r < 0)
return true; /* not really, but better safe than sorry */
@ -46,11 +50,10 @@ static bool ignore_proc(pid_t pid, bool warn_rootfs) {
if (!f)
return true; /* not really, but has the desired effect */
count = fread(&c, 1, 1, f);
/* Kernel threads have an empty cmdline */
if (count <= 0)
return true;
/* Try to read the first character of the command line. If the cmdline is empty (which might be the case for
* kernel threads but potentially also other stuff), this line won't do anything, but we don't care much, as
* actual kernel threads are already filtered out above. */
(void) fread(&c, 1, 1, f);
/* Processes with argv[0][0] = '@' we ignore from the killing spree.
*
@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ static bool ignore_proc(pid_t pid, bool warn_rootfs) {
_cleanup_free_ char *comm = NULL;
get_process_comm(pid, &comm);
(void) get_process_comm(pid, &comm);
log_notice("Process " PID_FMT " (%s) has been marked to be excluded from killing. It is "
"running from the root file system, and thus likely to block re-mounting of the "