linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:22:36 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other
	woes

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:38 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >  - I still think there's something wrong with dequeue_signal() being
> > potentially called with a task different than current by signalfd, since
> > __dequeue_signal() (among others) mucks around with current regardless.
> > I'd love to just make signalfd's read() only do anything if current ==
> > ctx->tsk and remove the task argument from dequeue_signal... that would
> > fix it nicely too no ?
> 
> There's got to be a clean solution that does not limit signalfd, no? I 
> have no time to look at it immediately, but I can look into it in the 
> next few days, if someone else does not do it before...

Is there a real usage to dequeuing somebody else signals with signalfd ?
If yes, then we can do something around the lines of passing task down
to __dequeue_signal, though I'm not too sure waht this notifier is about
and wether it might rely on being called from within the affected task
context...

Ben.


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