Patch "signal: remove warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    signal: remove warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     signal-remove-warning-about-using-si_tkill-in-rt_sigqueueinfo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 69828dce7af2cb6d08ef5a03de687d422fb7ec1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:47:35 -0700
Subject: signal: remove warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo

From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>

commit 69828dce7af2cb6d08ef5a03de687d422fb7ec1f upstream.

Sending SI_TKILL from rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo was deprecated, so now we issue
a warning on the first attempt of doing it.  We use WARN_ON_ONCE, which is
not informative and, what is worse, taints the kernel, making the trinity
syscall fuzzer complain false-positively from time to time.

It does not look like we need this warning at all, because the behaviour
changed quite a long time ago (2.6.39), and if an application relies on
the old API, it gets EPERM anyway and can issue a warning by itself.

So let us zap the warning in kernel.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/signal.c |   14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3004,11 +3004,9 @@ static int do_rt_sigqueueinfo(pid_t pid,
 	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
 	 */
 	if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
-	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
-		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
 		return -EPERM;
-	}
+
 	info->si_signo = sig;
 
 	/* POSIX.1b doesn't mention process groups.  */
@@ -3053,12 +3051,10 @@ static int do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tg
 	/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
 	 * Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
 	 */
-	if (((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL)) &&
-	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
-		/* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+	if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
+	    (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
 		return -EPERM;
-	}
+
 	info->si_signo = sig;
 
 	return do_send_specific(tgid, pid, sig, info);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vdavydov@parallels.com are

queue-3.14/signal-remove-warning-about-using-si_tkill-in-rt_sigqueueinfo.patch