linux-kernel - Re: synchronous signal in the blocked signal context

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Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:44:03 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: synchronous signal in the blocked signal context

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:54:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> >
> > This patch (b0423a0d9cc836b2c3d796623cd19236bfedfe63)
> > 
> > [PATCH] Remove duplicate code in signal.c
> > 
> > reverts a patch introduced by Linus long time back.
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> > Was this intentional?
> > 
> > With the current mainline code, SIGSEGV inside a SIGSEGV handler will endup
> > in linux handling endless recursive faults.
> > 
> > Just wondering if this has been discussed before and is intentional.
> 
> It certainly wasn't discussed, and I don't think it was intentional. We 
> should _not_ just unblock a blocked signal. We should kill the process, 
> because sending the signal is actually very very wrong.
> 
> Paul? Should I just revert, or did you have some deeper reason for it?

I cannot claim any deep thought on this one, so please do revert it.

Next time I submit a patch to code with which I am not intimately
familiar, I clearly need to carefully review the earlier patches.  :-/

							Thanx, Paul
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