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
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:35:41 -0400 From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@...aid.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ecashin@...aid.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:24:08 -0400 > Ed Cashin <ecashin@...aid.com> wrote: ... >> + sigfillset(&blocked); >> + sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL); >> + flush_signals(current); > > This is a kernel thread - it shouldn't need to fiddle with signals. ... Thanks for the feedback. I'll try out your suggestions and return with changes and explanations. -- Ed -- 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/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists