From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:55:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240221125525.GA16773@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240221-zapfhahn-pulsschlag-e8f9d919c350@brauner>
On 02/21, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:22:02PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > > > > + /* Currently unused. */
> > > > > + if (info)
> > > > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > >
> > > > Well, to me this looks like the unnecessary restriction... And why?
> > >
> > > Because right now we aren't sure that it's used
> >
> > Yes, but...
> >
> > > and we aren't sure what use-cases are there.
> >
> > the same use-cases as for rt_sigqueueinfo() ?
>
> Specifically for pidfd_send_signal() I mean. To me it seems very
> unlikely that anyone would be opening a pidfd to itself
Ah, with this, I do agree. And that is why (I think) we can remove
the "task_pid(current) != pid" check in the "info != NULL" branch.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-21 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-09 13:06 [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: add the "int si_code" arg to prepare_kill_siginfo() Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 13:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 15:11 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:15 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 15:49 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 10:23 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 12:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 12:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 12:54 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 14:26 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 16:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 17:22 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-14 12:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-16 12:28 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-16 13:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-16 14:46 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-16 18:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 8:34 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-20 9:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 9:22 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-20 11:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 12:59 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-20 16:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-21 7:42 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-21 12:55 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2024-02-21 13:35 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 19:08 ` Tycho Andersen
2024-02-09 15:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: add the "int si_code" arg to prepare_kill_siginfo() Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 16:13 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 16:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2024-02-09 16:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 19:36 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 19:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 20:01 ` Tycho Andersen
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