git: 16a44c124272 - stable/13 - protect.1: document existence of _oomprotect
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:57:46 UTC
The branch stable/13 has been updated by 0mp (doc, ports committer):
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=16a44c124272d3d42ca0821eca31cd79068da71b
commit 16a44c124272d3d42ca0821eca31cd79068da71b
Author: Adam Wolk <a.wolk@fudosecurity.com>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-11 22:23:43 +0000
Commit: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-07-21 23:56:27 +0000
protect.1: document existence of _oomprotect
Improve discoverability of the functionality by mentioning in the
userland tool manual. Add a SEE ALSO entry to rc.conf(5) where more
details are provided.
Sponsored by: Fudo Security (a.wolk)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30334
(cherry picked from commit c8b6be0f7d1b92d11b279761685f61f6702700a1)
---
usr.bin/protect/protect.1 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/usr.bin/protect/protect.1 b/usr.bin/protect/protect.1
index b9be4afe04b8..d27a8898dad5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/protect/protect.1
+++ b/usr.bin/protect/protect.1
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 19, 2013
+.Dd May 18, 2021
.Dt PROTECT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Note that only one of the
or
.Fl g
flags may be specified when adjusting the state of existing processes.
+.Pp
+Daemons can be protected on startup using
+.Ao Ar name Ac Ns Va _oomprotect
+option from
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
@@ -82,8 +87,31 @@ Protect all ssh sessions and their child processes:
Remove protection from all current and future processes:
.Pp
.Dl "protect -cdi -p 1"
+.Pp
+Using
+.Xr ps 1
+to check if the protect flag has been applied to the process:
+.Pp
+.Dl "ps -O flags,flags2 -p 64430"
+.Pp
+.Dl " PID F F2 TT STAT TIME COMMAND"
+.Dl "64430 10104002 00000001 5 S+ 0:00.00 ./main"
+.Dl " ^P ^PI"
+.Pp
+In the above example
+.Nm P
+points at the protected flag and
+.Nm PI
+points at the iheritance flag.
+The process is protected if
+.Nm P
+bit is set to 1. All children of this process will also be protected if
+.Nm PI
+bit is set to 1.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr procctl 2
+.Xr ps 1 ,
+.Xr procctl 2 ,
+.Xr rc.conf 5
.Sh BUGS
If you protect a runaway process that allocates all memory the system will
deadlock.