diff --git a/doc/TRANSIENT-SETTINGS.md b/doc/TRANSIENT-SETTINGS.md
index 2d73980f16..bb13cfdbfe 100644
--- a/doc/TRANSIENT-SETTINGS.md
+++ b/doc/TRANSIENT-SETTINGS.md
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ All process killing settings are available for transient units:
✓ SendSIGHUP=
✓ KillMode=
✓ KillSignal=
+✓ FinalKillSignal=
```
## Service Unit Settings
diff --git a/man/systemd.kill.xml b/man/systemd.kill.xml
index 2112dea31a..1a42906240 100644
--- a/man/systemd.kill.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.kill.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@
enabled with SendSIGHUP=). If then, after a
delay (configured via the TimeoutStopSec=
option), processes still remain, the termination request is
- repeated with the SIGKILL signal (unless
+ repeated with the SIGKILL signal or the
+ signal specified via FinalKillSignal= (unless
this is disabled via the SendSIGKILL=
option). See
kill2
@@ -135,9 +136,27 @@
SendSIGKILL=
Specifies whether to send
- SIGKILL to remaining processes after a
- timeout, if the normal shutdown procedure left processes of
- the service around. Takes a boolean value. Defaults to "yes".
+ SIGKILL (or the signal specified by
+ FinalKillSignal=) to remaining processes
+ after a timeout, if the normal shutdown procedure left
+ processes of the service around. Takes a boolean value.
+ Defaults to "yes".
+
+
+
+
+ FinalKillSignal=
+ Specifies which signal to send to remaining
+ processes after a timeout if SendSIGKILL=
+ is enabled. The signal configured here should be one that is
+ not typically caught and processed by services (SIGTERM
+ is not suitable). Developers can find it useful to use this to
+ generate a coredump to troubleshoot why a service did not
+ terminate upon receiving the initial SIGTERM
+ signal. This can be achieved by configuring LimitCORE=
+ and setting FinalKillSignal= to either
+ SIGQUIT or SIGABRT
+ Defaults to SIGKILL.
diff --git a/shell-completion/bash/systemd-run b/shell-completion/bash/systemd-run
index d317466b26..4c60130dfa 100644
--- a/shell-completion/bash/systemd-run
+++ b/shell-completion/bash/systemd-run
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ _systemd_run() {
SendSIGKILL= MemoryLimit= CPUShares= BlockIOWeight= User= Group=
DevicePolicy= KillMode= DeviceAllow= BlockIOReadBandwidth=
BlockIOWriteBandwidth= BlockIODeviceWeight= Nice= Environment=
- KillSignal= LimitCPU= LimitFSIZE= LimitDATA= LimitSTACK=
- LimitCORE= LimitRSS= LimitNOFILE= LimitAS= LimitNPROC=
+ KillSignal= FinalKillSignal= LimitCPU= LimitFSIZE= LimitDATA=
+ LimitSTACK= LimitCORE= LimitRSS= LimitNOFILE= LimitAS= LimitNPROC=
LimitMEMLOCK= LimitLOCKS= LimitSIGPENDING= LimitMSGQUEUE=
LimitNICE= LimitRTPRIO= LimitRTTIME= PrivateTmp= PrivateDevices=
PrivateNetwork= NoNewPrivileges= WorkingDirectory= RootDirectory=
diff --git a/shell-completion/zsh/_systemd-run b/shell-completion/zsh/_systemd-run
index 0ad4b27a6f..a8a8e6fe34 100644
--- a/shell-completion/zsh/_systemd-run
+++ b/shell-completion/zsh/_systemd-run
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ _arguments \
SendSIGKILL= MemoryLimit= CPUShares= BlockIOWeight= User= Group= \
DevicePolicy= KillMode= DeviceAllow= BlockIOReadBandwidth= \
BlockIOWriteBandwidth= BlockIODeviceWeight= Nice= Environment= \
- KillSignal= LimitCPU= LimitFSIZE= LimitDATA= LimitSTACK= \
- LimitCORE= LimitRSS= LimitNOFILE= LimitAS= LimitNPROC= \
+ KillSignal= FinalKillSignal= LimitCPU= LimitFSIZE= LimitDATA= \
+ LimitSTACK= LimitCORE= LimitRSS= LimitNOFILE= LimitAS= LimitNPROC= \
LimitMEMLOCK= LimitLOCKS= LimitSIGPENDING= LimitMSGQUEUE= \
LimitNICE= LimitRTPRIO= LimitRTTIME= PrivateTmp= PrivateDevices= \
PrivateNetwork= NoNewPrivileges= WorkingDirectory= RootDirectory= \
diff --git a/src/core/dbus-kill.c b/src/core/dbus-kill.c
index 028e7ec1c1..3e2a7694a7 100644
--- a/src/core/dbus-kill.c
+++ b/src/core/dbus-kill.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ const sd_bus_vtable bus_kill_vtable[] = {
SD_BUS_VTABLE_START(0),
SD_BUS_PROPERTY("KillMode", "s", property_get_kill_mode, offsetof(KillContext, kill_mode), SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST),
SD_BUS_PROPERTY("KillSignal", "i", bus_property_get_int, offsetof(KillContext, kill_signal), SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST),
+ SD_BUS_PROPERTY("FinalKillSignal", "i", bus_property_get_int, offsetof(KillContext, final_kill_signal), SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST),
SD_BUS_PROPERTY("SendSIGKILL", "b", bus_property_get_bool, offsetof(KillContext, send_sigkill), SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST),
SD_BUS_PROPERTY("SendSIGHUP", "b", bus_property_get_bool, offsetof(KillContext, send_sighup), SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST),
SD_BUS_VTABLE_END
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ const sd_bus_vtable bus_kill_vtable[] = {
static BUS_DEFINE_SET_TRANSIENT_PARSE(kill_mode, KillMode, kill_mode_from_string);
static BUS_DEFINE_SET_TRANSIENT_TO_STRING(kill_signal, "i", int32_t, int, "%" PRIi32, signal_to_string_with_check);
+static BUS_DEFINE_SET_TRANSIENT_TO_STRING(final_kill_signal, "i", int32_t, int, "%" PRIi32, signal_to_string_with_check);
int bus_kill_context_set_transient_property(
Unit *u,
@@ -47,5 +49,8 @@ int bus_kill_context_set_transient_property(
if (streq(name, "KillSignal"))
return bus_set_transient_kill_signal(u, name, &c->kill_signal, message, flags, error);
+ if (streq(name, "FinalKillSignal"))
+ return bus_set_transient_final_kill_signal(u, name, &c->final_kill_signal, message, flags, error);
+
return 0;
}
diff --git a/src/core/kill.c b/src/core/kill.c
index 929eebfe37..73fa556d13 100644
--- a/src/core/kill.c
+++ b/src/core/kill.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ void kill_context_init(KillContext *c) {
assert(c);
c->kill_signal = SIGTERM;
+ c->final_kill_signal = SIGKILL;
c->send_sigkill = true;
c->send_sighup = false;
}
@@ -21,10 +22,12 @@ void kill_context_dump(KillContext *c, FILE *f, const char *prefix) {
fprintf(f,
"%sKillMode: %s\n"
"%sKillSignal: SIG%s\n"
+ "%sFinalKillSignal: SIG%s\n"
"%sSendSIGKILL: %s\n"
"%sSendSIGHUP: %s\n",
prefix, kill_mode_to_string(c->kill_mode),
prefix, signal_to_string(c->kill_signal),
+ prefix, signal_to_string(c->final_kill_signal),
prefix, yes_no(c->send_sigkill),
prefix, yes_no(c->send_sighup));
}
diff --git a/src/core/kill.h b/src/core/kill.h
index 2d6aa943a6..f4e312d75a 100644
--- a/src/core/kill.h
+++ b/src/core/kill.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ typedef enum KillMode {
struct KillContext {
KillMode kill_mode;
int kill_signal;
+ int final_kill_signal;
bool send_sigkill;
bool send_sighup;
};
diff --git a/src/core/load-fragment-gperf.gperf.m4 b/src/core/load-fragment-gperf.gperf.m4
index 290e8001d8..7a276ea3c8 100644
--- a/src/core/load-fragment-gperf.gperf.m4
+++ b/src/core/load-fragment-gperf.gperf.m4
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ m4_define(`KILL_CONTEXT_CONFIG_ITEMS',
`$1.SendSIGKILL, config_parse_bool, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.send_sigkill)
$1.SendSIGHUP, config_parse_bool, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.send_sighup)
$1.KillMode, config_parse_kill_mode, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.kill_mode)
-$1.KillSignal, config_parse_signal, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.kill_signal)'
+$1.KillSignal, config_parse_signal, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.kill_signal)
+$1.FinalKillSignal, config_parse_signal, 0, offsetof($1, kill_context.final_kill_signal)'
)m4_dnl
m4_define(`CGROUP_CONTEXT_CONFIG_ITEMS',
`$1.Slice, config_parse_unit_slice, 0, 0
diff --git a/src/core/load-fragment.h b/src/core/load-fragment.h
index dad281ef72..1cb5ccadf6 100644
--- a/src/core/load-fragment.h
+++ b/src/core/load-fragment.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_exec_cpu_affinity);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_exec_secure_bits);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_capability_set);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_kill_signal);
+CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_final_kill_signal);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_exec_mount_flags);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_timer);
CONFIG_PARSER_PROTOTYPE(config_parse_trigger_unit);
diff --git a/src/core/unit.c b/src/core/unit.c
index 113205bf25..23433be31c 100644
--- a/src/core/unit.c
+++ b/src/core/unit.c
@@ -4479,7 +4479,7 @@ static int operation_to_signal(KillContext *c, KillOperation k) {
return c->kill_signal;
case KILL_KILL:
- return SIGKILL;
+ return c->final_kill_signal;
case KILL_ABORT:
return SIGABRT;
diff --git a/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c b/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
index 0c713678e2..8f90f2c31a 100644
--- a/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ static int bus_append_kill_property(sd_bus_message *m, const char *field, const
return bus_append_parse_boolean(m, field, eq);
- if (streq(field, "KillSignal"))
+ if (STR_IN_SET(field, "KillSignal", "FinalKillSignal"))
return bus_append_signal_from_string(m, field, eq);