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Message-ID: <20061130165010.089d3072@frecb000686>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:50:10 +0100
From:	Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@...l.net>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/5][AIO] - Make good_sigevent non-static


                      Make good_sigevent() non-static


  Move good_sigevent() from posix-timers.c to signal.c where it belongs,
and make it non-static so that it can be used by other subsystems.


 include/linux/signal.h |    1 +
 kernel/posix-timers.c  |   17 -----------------
 kernel/signal.c        |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>


Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/include/linux/signal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2.orig/include/linux/signal.h	2006-11-30 13:18:33.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/include/linux/signal.h	2006-11-30 13:20:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ extern int sigprocmask(int, sigset_t *, 
 
 struct pt_regs;
 extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka, struct pt_regs *regs, void *cookie);
+extern struct task_struct * good_sigevent(sigevent_t *);
 
 extern struct kmem_cache *sighand_cachep;
 
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/kernel/posix-timers.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2.orig/kernel/posix-timers.c	2006-11-30 13:18:33.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/kernel/posix-timers.c	2006-11-30 13:20:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -367,23 +367,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart posix_timer_
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static struct task_struct * good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
-{
-	struct task_struct *rtn = current->group_leader;
-
-	if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) &&
-		(!(rtn = find_task_by_pid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) ||
-		 rtn->tgid != current->tgid ||
-		 (event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_SIGNAL))
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (((event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_NONE) &&
-	    ((event->sigev_signo <= 0) || (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)))
-		return NULL;
-
-	return rtn;
-}
-
 void register_posix_clock(const clockid_t clock_id, struct k_clock *new_clock)
 {
 	if ((unsigned) clock_id >= MAX_CLOCKS) {
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2.orig/kernel/signal.c	2006-11-30 13:18:33.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/kernel/signal.c	2006-11-30 13:33:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -1189,6 +1189,30 @@ int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct 
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/***
+ * good_sigevent - check and get target task from a sigevent.
+ * @event: the sigevent to be checked
+ *
+ * This function must be called with the tasklist_lock held for reading.
+ */
+struct task_struct * good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
+{
+	struct task_struct *task = current->group_leader;
+
+	if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) == SIGEV_THREAD_ID) {
+		task = find_task_by_pid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id);
+
+		if (!task || task->tgid != current->tgid)
+			return NULL;
+	} else if (event->sigev_notify == SIGEV_SIGNAL) {
+		if ((event->sigev_signo <= 0) || (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX))
+			return NULL;
+	} else
+		return NULL;
+
+	return task;
+}
+
 /*
  * kill_pgrp_info() sends a signal to a process group: this is what the tty
  * control characters do (^C, ^Z etc)
-
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