[PATCH] ssh-agent: exit 0 from SIGTERM under systemd socket-activation
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Apr 16 10:18:34 AEST 2025
When the ssh-agent service is configured to be launched under systemd
socket-activation, the user can inspect the status of the agent with
something like:
systemctl --user status ssh-agent.service
If the user does:
systemctl --user stop ssh-agent.service
it causes the `systemd --user` supervisor to send a SIGTERM to the
agent, which terminates while leaving the systemd-managed socket in
place. That's good, and as expected. (If the user wants to close the
socket, they can do "systemctl --user stop ssh-agent.socket" instead)
But because ssh-agent exits with code 2 in response to a SIGTERM, the
supervisor marks the service as "failed", even though the state of the
supervised service is exactly the same as during session startup (not
running, ready to launch when a client connects to the socket).
This change makes ssh-agent exit cleanly (code 0) in response to a
SIGTERM when launched under socket activation. This aligns the systemd
supervisor's understanding of the state of supervised ssh-agent with
reality.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
---
ssh-agent.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ssh-agent.c b/ssh-agent.c
index 55b9f44f4..9617e6ee0 100644
--- a/ssh-agent.c
+++ b/ssh-agent.c
@@ -2238,6 +2238,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
size_t npfd = 0;
u_int maxfds;
sigset_t nsigset, osigset;
+ int socket_activated = 0;
/* Ensure that fds 0, 1 and 2 are open or directed to /dev/null */
sanitise_stdfd();
@@ -2389,6 +2390,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
fatal("bad LISTEN_PID: %d vs pid %d", pid, getpid());
debug("using socket activation on fd=3");
sock = 3;
+ socket_activated = 1;
}
/* Otherwise, create private directory for agent socket */
@@ -2522,7 +2524,7 @@ skip:
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &nsigset, &osigset);
if (signalled_exit != 0) {
logit("exiting on signal %d", (int)signalled_exit);
- cleanup_exit(2);
+ cleanup_exit((signalled_exit == SIGTERM && socket_activated) ? 0 : 2);
}
if (signalled_keydrop) {
logit("signal %d received; removing all keys",
--
2.47.2
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