linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6][v3] Protect cinit from blocked fatal signals

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Message-ID: <20081223000356.GB7279@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:03:56 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, roland@...hat.com, bastian@...di.eu.org,
	daniel@...ac.com, xemul@...nvz.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sukadev@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6][v3] Protect cinit from blocked fatal signals

On 12/22, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov [oleg@...hat.com] wrote:
> | > @@ -1907,9 +1943,10 @@ relock:
> | >
> | >  		/*
> | >  		 * Global init gets no signals it doesn't want.
> | > +		 * Container-init gets no signals it doesn't want from same
> | > +		 * container.
> | >  		 */
> | > -		if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) &&
> | > -		    !signal_group_exit(signal))
> | > +		if (sig_unkillable(signal, signr) && !signal_group_exit(signal))
> | >  			continue;
> | 
> | Again, I do not understand why do we need SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE_FROM_NS.
> | 
> | I thought about the change in get_signal_to_deliver() during the
> | previous discussion, and I think what we need is:
> | 
> | 		if (unlikely(signal->flags & SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE) &&
> | 		    !sig_kernel_only(sig))
> | 			continue;
> | 
> | and this was yet another reason for "protect init from unwanted signals more".
> 
> I was trying to avoid the clearing of the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE in
> send_signal() that we had last time.

Well, my plan was to simplify the first series of patches as much
as possible, then I thought we can change get_signal_to_deliver().

But now I tend to agree, we should not clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE when
we send the signal, and we should pass same_ns/from_parent_ns to
prepare_signal() from the start. This way is more "clean".

> But yes, you are right. I even had a BUG_ON() to confirm SIGKILL/SIGSTOP
> will never happen for global-init :-). If so, SIGKLL/SIGSTOP to an init
> can come only from parent ns.
>
> So, yes, we can drop this flag.

Great!

Oleg.

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