1 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/networking/telnetd.c b/networking/telnetd.c
index cccf03dfd..108bbf44f 100644
--- a/networking/telnetd.c
+++ b/networking/telnetd.c
@@ -279,6 +279,10 @@ make_new_session(
         /* make new session and process group */
         setsid();
 
+        /* Restore default signal handling */
+        signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
+        signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);
+
         /* open the child's side of the tty. */
         /* NB: setsid() disconnects from any previous ctty's. Therefore
          * we must open child's side of the tty AFTER setsid! */
@@ -302,14 +306,18 @@ make_new_session(
         /* Uses FILE-based I/O to stdout, but does fflush(stdout),
          * so should be safe with vfork.
          * I fear, though, that some users will have ridiculously big
-         * issue files, and they may block writing to fd 1. */
+         * issue files, and they may block writing to fd 1,
+         * (parent is supposed to read it, but parent waits
+         * for vforked child to exec!) */
         print_login_issue(issuefile, NULL);
 
         /* Exec shell / login / whatever */
         login_argv[0] = loginpath;
         login_argv[1] = NULL;
-        execvp(loginpath, (char **)login_argv);
-        /* Safer with vfork, and we shouldn't send message
+        /* exec busybox applet (if PREFER_APPLETS=y), if that fails,
+         * exec external program */
+        BB_EXECVP(loginpath, (char **)login_argv);
+        /* _exit is safer with vfork, and we shouldn't send message
          * to remote clients anyway */
         _exit(1); /*bb_perror_msg_and_die("execv %s", loginpath);*/
 }
@@ -374,7 +382,7 @@ free_session(struct tsession *ts)
 
 #else /* !FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE */
 
-/* Used in main() only, thus exits. */
+/* Used in main() only, thus "return 0" actually is exit(0). */
 #define free_session(ts) return 0
 
 #endif
@@ -384,20 +392,22 @@ static void handle_sigchld(int sig)
         pid_t pid;
         struct tsession *ts;
 
-        pid = waitpid(-1, &sig, WNOHANG);
-        if (pid > 0) {
+        /* Looping: more than one child may have exited */
+        while (1) {
+                pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG);
+                if (pid <= 0)
+                        break;
                 ts = sessions;
                 while (ts) {
                         if (ts->shell_pid == pid) {
                                 ts->shell_pid = -1;
-                                return;
+                                break;
                         }
                         ts = ts->next;
                 }
         }
 }
 
-
 int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
 int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -430,7 +440,7 @@ int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv)
                 if (!(opt & OPT_FOREGROUND)) {
                         /* DAEMON_CHDIR_ROOT was giving inconsistent
                          * behavior with/without -F, -i */
-                        bb_daemonize_or_rexec(0 /*DAEMON_CHDIR_ROOT*/, argv);
+                        bb_daemonize_or_rexec(0 /*was DAEMON_CHDIR_ROOT*/, argv);
                 }
         }
         /* Redirect log to syslog early, if needed */
@@ -466,6 +476,8 @@ int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 
         if (opt & OPT_WATCHCHILD)
                 signal(SIGCHLD, handle_sigchld);
+        else /* prevent dead children from becoming zombies */
+                signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
 
 /*
    This is how the buffers are used. The arrows indicate the movement
@@ -497,7 +509,7 @@ int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv)
         while (ts) {
                 struct tsession *next = ts->next; /* in case we free ts. */
                 if (ts->shell_pid == -1) {
-                        /* Child died ad we detected that */
+                        /* Child died and we detected that */
                         free_session(ts);
                 } else {
                         if (ts->size1 > 0)       /* can write to pty */
@@ -514,7 +526,7 @@ int telnetd_main(int argc, char **argv)
         if (!IS_INETD) {
                 FD_SET(master_fd, &rdfdset);
                 /* This is needed because free_session() does not
-                 * take into account master_fd when it finds new
+                 * take master_fd into account when it finds new
                  * maxfd among remaining fd's */
                 if (master_fd > maxfd)
                         maxfd = master_fd;