linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] signal: kill the obsolete SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete

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Message-ID: <20151106191652.GA5505@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 20:16:52 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>, amanieu@...il.com,
	pmoore@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	vdavydov@...allels.com, qiaowei.ren@...el.com, dave@...olabs.net,
	palmer@...belt.com, syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] signal: kill the obsolete SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check
	in complete_signal()

On 11/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:17:20 +0100 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So this replaces
> > > signal-kill-the-obsolete-signal_unkillable-check-in-complete_signal.patch
> > > 2/3 is actually the same change, just the changelog was updated.
> >
> > It's awfully late.  Do you see any reason why we should jam this into 4.4?
>
> No, I think this can wait till 4.5.

Oh. Andrew, please ignore this version too. I'll send v3.

Because when I tried to make the promised cleanups I have found yet another
ptrace/SIGKILL/SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE bug, and it seems that it needs to change
the same code paths again. I need to think.

Dmitry, do you realize how much I hate you? ;)

Oleg.

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