linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] ptraced process waiting on syscall may return kernel internal errnos

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:30:02 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@...fujitsu.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ptraced process waiting on syscall may return kernel
	internal errnos

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 20:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Oh and Roland patch doesn't prevent signalfd() from stealing synchronous
> > signals such as SIGSEGV etc... which I think would result in random
> > behaviour.... do you want a patch for that or we just consider it broken
> > API usage and let it as it is ?
> 
> I think Davide ack'ed your patch, but I also think that one clashes with 
> the one I actually ended up applying. If you were to send me the signalfd 
> part (tested, preferably), I'd apply it, considering that it seems to be 
> the right thign to do, and it already got acked by Davide. 

Well, it's less urgent imho now that the real problems are fixed but
here it is, totally untested patch :-)
---

Don't let signalfd dequeue private signals off other threads

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
---

Index: linux-work/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/kernel/signal.c	2007-06-08 15:28:00.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/kernel/signal.c	2007-06-08 15:28:44.000000000 +1000
@@ -363,7 +363,13 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpe
  */
 int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
 {
-	int signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
+	int signr = 0;
+
+	/* We only dequeue private signals from ourselves, we don't let
+	 * signalfd steal them
+	 */
+	if (tsk == current)
+		signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
 	if (!signr) {
 		signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
 					 mask, info);


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