linux-kernel - [PATCH] do_sigaction: don't worry about signal

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:01:57 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()

do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

	* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
	* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.
	
I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- t/kernel/signal.c~SA_NOPEND	2007-08-20 19:40:31.000000000 +0400
+++ t/kernel/signal.c	2007-08-20 19:43:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -2300,15 +2300,6 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigac
 	k = &current->sighand->action[sig-1];
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	if (signal_pending(current)) {
-		/*
-		 * If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
-		 * threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.
-		 */
-		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-		return -ERESTARTNOINTR;
-	}
-
 	if (oact)
 		*oact = *k;
 

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/