From: Eric W. Biederman I'm not really certain what the thinking was but the code obviously wanted to walk processes other than just those in it's session, for purposes of do_SAK. Just walking those tasks that don't have a session assigned sounds at the very least incomplete. So modify the code to kill everything in the session and anything else that might have the tty open. Hopefully this helps if the do_SAK functionality is ever finished. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/tty_io.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~do_sak-dont-depend-on-session-id-0 drivers/char/tty_io.c --- devel/drivers/char/tty_io.c~do_sak-dont-depend-on-session-id-0 2006-01-29 00:37:43.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2006-01-29 00:37:43.000000000 -0800 @@ -2671,7 +2671,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg) tty_hangup(tty); #else struct tty_struct *tty = arg; - struct task_struct *p; + struct task_struct *g, *p; int session; int i; struct file *filp; @@ -2692,8 +2692,18 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg) tty->driver->flush_buffer(tty); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + /* Kill the entire session */ do_each_task_pid(session, PIDTYPE_SID, p) { - if (p->signal->tty == tty || session > 0) { + printk(KERN_NOTICE "SAK: killed process %d" + " (%s): p->signal->session==tty->session\n", + p->pid, p->comm); + send_sig(SIGKILL, p, 1); + } while_each_task_pid(session, PIDTYPE_SID, p); + /* Now kill any processes that happen to have the + * tty open. + */ + do_each_thread(g, p) { + if (p->signal->tty == tty) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "SAK: killed process %d" " (%s): p->signal->session==tty->session\n", p->pid, p->comm); @@ -2720,7 +2730,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg) rcu_read_unlock(); } task_unlock(p); - } while_each_task_pid(session, PIDTYPE_SID, p); + } while_each_thread(g, p); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); #endif } _