linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] signals: allow the kernel to actually kill /sbin/init

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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:54:53 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] signals: allow the kernel to actually kill /sbin/init

Currently the buggy /sbin/init hangs if SIGSEGV/etc happens. The kernel sends
the signal, init dequeues it and ignores, returns from the exception, repeats
the faulting instruction, and so on forever.

Imho, such a behaviour is not good. I think that the explicit loud death of
the buggy /sbin/init is better than the silent hang.

Change force_sig_info() to clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE when the task should be
really killed.

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

--- 25/kernel/signal.c~3_INIT_SIGSEGV	2008-03-16 15:45:56.000000000 +0300
+++ 25/kernel/signal.c	2008-03-16 16:14:56.000000000 +0300
@@ -877,7 +877,8 @@ specific_send_sig_info(int sig, struct s
  * since we do not want to have a signal handler that was blocked
  * be invoked when user space had explicitly blocked it.
  *
- * We don't want to have recursive SIGSEGV's etc, for example.
+ * We don't want to have recursive SIGSEGV's etc, for example,
+ * that is why we also clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.
  */
 int
 force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t)
@@ -897,6 +898,8 @@ force_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *
 			recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t);
 		}
 	}
+	if (action->sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)
+		t->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE;
 	ret = specific_send_sig_info(sig, info, t);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&t->sighand->siglock, flags);
 

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