linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] signal: make group kill signal fatal

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Date:	Tue,  2 Jun 2009 18:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] signal: make group kill signal fatal

> > > Heh. In this case you have another (long-standing) issue, please note
> > > the "if (p->flags & PF_EXITING)" check in wants_signal().

Hmm.  wants_signal():

	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING)
		return 0;
	if (sig == SIGKILL)
		return 1;

Perhaps we should reverse the order of those two?

But also I'm now reminded that complete_signal() short-circuits for the
single-threaded case and never does the sig_fatal() case.

This means a single-threaded process will have SIGKILL in shared_pending
but not in its own pending so __fatal_signal_pending() will be false, no?  

I'm also now wondering if in some of our recent signals discussions we have
been assuming that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set when a fatal signal is pending.
We might be leaving some other unintended hole since that's not really true.

Probably we should just fiddle complete_signal() to do that stuff for the
single-threaded case too.  (That obviates the wants_signal change above.)

> Yes, if a thread exits with the pending signal, then of course interruptible
> wait doesn work.

Along the same lines of the recent core dump discussion, I think it would
be proper to fix this so TIF_SIGPENDING isn't left set (nor is newly set)
by a signal that won't affect it later.

> We can clear TIF_SIGPENDING, and we can change recalc_sigpending_xxx()
> to take PF_EXITING into account (or change their callers), but this
> needs changes. And I am not sure this will right.

I think we want recalc_sigpending_tsk to be consistent with wants_signal
and the other conditions controlling signal_wake_up calls.  But indeed we
need to think through any ramifications carefully.

Thanks,
Roland
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