Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:07:09 -0500 (EST) From: Max.Euston@archive.jmrodgers.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/10399: Bad cpu limit (60s) w/ getty+ppp Message-ID: <199903042207.RAA13669@archive.jmrodgers.com>
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>Number: 10399
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Bad cpu limit w/ (60s) w/ getty+ppp
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 5 06:10:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Max Euston
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
2.2.8-RELEASE (but same problem with all versions)
>Description:
getty sets a SOFT cpu limit to 60 seconds to help detect hung lines.
It resets this to infinity before exec()ing login, but does not reset
it before exec()ing "ppplogin" (set with pp=... in /etc/gettytab).
>How-To-Repeat:
Set "pp=..." in /etc/gettytab and ppp-connect to this line. The
connection will silently drop some time in the future (15 minutes to
several hours depending on line usage).
>Fix:
1) Apply this patch:
--- /src/libexec/getty/main.c.orig Mon Dec 15 02:10:53 1997
+++ /src/libexec/getty/main.c Wed Mar 3 14:58:44 1999
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@
if ((rval = getname()) == 2) {
oflush();
alarm(0);
+ limit.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
+ limit.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
+ (void)setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &limit);
execle(PP, "ppplogin", ttyn, (char *) 0, env);
syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: %m", PP);
exit(1);
2) Workaround:
Have "pp=..." set to a shell script that does a "ulimit -t unlimited"
(or limit for csh) before running "ppp -direct".
>Release-Note:
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