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

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Message-ID: <20060801111304.B9822@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:13:04 -0700
From:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"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 Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:13:32AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:25:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Well, I do have to say that I like the notion of trying to have the _same_ 
> > semantics for "force_sig_info()" and "force_sig_specific()", so in that 
> > way your patch is fine - I just missed the fact that it changed it back to 
> > the old broken ones (that results in endless SIGSEGV's if the SIGSEGV 
> > happens when setting up the handler for the SIGSEGV and other 
> > "interesting" issues, where a bug can result in the user process hanging 
> > instead of just killing it outright).
> 
> I guess I am glad I was not -totally- insane when submitting the
> original patch.  ;-)
> 
> > However, I wonder if the _proper_ fix is to just either remove 
> > "force_sig_specific()" entirely, or just make that one match the semantics 
> > of "force_sig_info()" instead (rather than doing it the other way - change 
> > for_sig_specific() to match force_sig_info()).
> 
> One question -- the original (2.6.14 or thereabouts) version of
> force_sig_info() would do the sigdelset() and recalc_sig_pending()
> even if the signal was not blocked, while your patch below would
> do sigdelset()/recalc_sig_pending() only if the signal was blocked,
> even if it was not ignored.  Not sure this matters, but thought I
> should ask.
> 
> > force_sig_info() has only two uses, and both should be ok with the 
> 
> s/force_sig_info/force_sig_specific/?  I see >100 uses of force_sig_info().
> 
> > force_sig_specific() semantics, since they are for SIGSTOP and SIGKILL 
> > respectively, and those should not be blockable unless you're a kernel 
> > thread (and I don't think either of them could validly ever be used with 
> > kernel threads anyway), so doing it the other way around _should_ be ok.
> 
> OK, SIGSTOP and SIGKILL cannot be ignored or blocked.  So wouldn't
> they end up skipping the recalc_sig_pending() in the new code,
> where they would have ended up executing it in the 2.6.14 version
> of force_sig_specific()?

I don't think it matters.
signal_wake_up() in the path of specific_send_sig_info() should anyhow
do that.

thanks,
suresh
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