David S. Miller wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:01:51 -0800
>Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
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>>We have an SMP race in the signal code.  A fix for x86 is below.  All archs
>>need updating.
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>I think the fix may need fixing :-)
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>Now that we're passing a stack local k_sigaction into handle_signal()
>the real sigaction is not being updated f.e. when SA_ONESHOT causes
>ka->sa.sa_handler to be set to SIG_DFL.  Only the stack local copy
>is going to be set like this, not the one in the signals struct which
>is where it is needed.
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>I noticed this while coding up the sparc versions which I'll defer until
>this is cleared up.
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BTW, here is a new patch that covers that problem.

-Corey