#include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define STACK_SIZE 8192 * 512 struct subsystem_info { char *fn_name; int (*fn)(void); }; int __subsystem_entry(struct subsystem_info *info) { /* entry point from clone(). we setup the process name so we know what we are looking at from a glance in a ps view or htop or whatever. */ char *name = malloc(16 * sizeof(char)); snprintf(name, 16, NAME_SHORTHAND ": %s", info->fn_name); name[15] = '\0'; prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name); free(name); int ret = info->fn(); /* we are expected to free info before exiting */ free(info); return ret; } int __impl_start_subsystem(char *fn_name, int (*fn)(void)) { /* because CLONE_VM is being set, our stack is not duplicated and therefore we need to map a stack */ void *stack = mmap(NULL, STACK_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_GROWSDOWN | MAP_STACK | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); if((long)stack < 0) die("subsys mmap:"); /* the libc gods have graced us with the ability to pass one (1) arg to the function. struct required. the absence of a free is not a memory leak because we free it above. */ struct subsystem_info *info = malloc(sizeof(struct subsystem_info)); info->fn_name = fn_name; info->fn = fn; int pid = clone((int (*)(void *))__subsystem_entry, (void *)((long)stack + STACK_SIZE), CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM, info); if(pid < 0) { munmap(stack, STACK_SIZE); die("subsys clone:"); } return 0; }