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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "'Eric W. Biederman'" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	'Deepa Dinamani' <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:43:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613124347.GB12506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66311ce9762849f7988c16bc752ea5a9@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On 06/13, David Laight wrote:
>
> > And you interpret this as if a pending signal should be delivered in any case,
> > even if pselect succeeds. Again, perhaps you are right, but to me this is simply
> > undocumented.
>
> This text (from http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html) is moderately clear:
>     ... if all threads within the process block delivery of the signal, the signal shall
>     remain pending on the process until a thread calls a sigwait() function selecting that
>     signal, a thread unblocks delivery of the signal, or the action associated with the signal
>     is set to ignore the signal.
>
> So when pselect() 'replaces the signal mask' any pending signals should be delivered.

I fail to understand this logic.


> > However, linux never did this. Until the commit 854a6ed56839 ("signal: Add
> > restore_user_sigmask()"). This commit caused regression. We had to revert it.
>
> That change wasn't expected to change the behaviour...

Yes.

And the changed behaviour matched your understanding of standard. We had to
change it back.

So what do you want from me? ;)

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-13 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22  3:21 [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask() Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 15:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 15:55   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 16:14     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 16:33       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23  9:03         ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:59           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:18             ` David Laight
2019-05-23 16:36               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:56                 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 18:06                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 20:41                     ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 21:06                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24  9:58                     ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:10                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:16                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 16:33                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 17:01                           ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-27 15:04                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-28 20:47                               ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:57                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 18:42                                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28  9:02                             ` David Laight
2019-05-28  9:12                             ` David Laight
2019-05-28 11:37                               ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28 12:04                                 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:19                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:29                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 14:51                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 13:29                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:59                     ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:09                       ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:46                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:44                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 16:40                         ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:33         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 22:18 ` Chris Down
2019-05-22 22:52   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:11 ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 16:54   ` David Laight
2019-05-29 18:50     ` Eric Wong
2019-05-30  9:34       ` David Laight
2019-05-30 13:04       ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-29 16:56   ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 18:26   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 22:32   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30  1:54     ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 18:28       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 14:40     ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 18:37       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 13:01   ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:18     ` David Laight
2019-05-30 16:13       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 15:38     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:48       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:59         ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:08       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 17:20         ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 16:22       ` David Laight
2019-05-30 15:57     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 21:03     ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 13:41   ` [PATCH] signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-04 15:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-04 15:57       ` David Laight
2019-06-04 16:37     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-04 18:14       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-06-04 18:35     ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 21:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-04 22:24       ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 23:51       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-05  9:04         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  8:56       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  9:02       ` David Laight
2019-06-05  9:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  9:58           ` David Laight
2019-06-05 15:58     ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] signal: simplify set_user_sigmask/restore_user_sigmask Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 15:58       ` [PATCH -mm 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06  0:14         ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06  1:06         ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06  7:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06  7:30           ` Sedat Dilek
2019-06-05 17:24       ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] " Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06  9:05         ` David Laight
2019-06-06 11:05           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:29             ` David Laight
2019-06-06 12:41               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 13:23                 ` David Laight
2019-06-06 10:22         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:32       ` [PATCH -mm V2 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08     ` [PATCH 0/2] select: simplify the usage of restore_saved_sigmask_unless() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08       ` [PATCH 1/2] select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 18:05         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06 14:09       ` [PATCH 2/2] select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 21:39       ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41         ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 22:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-10 16:22           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-10 21:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11  9:52               ` David Laight
2019-06-11 11:14                 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:55                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:24                     ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:35                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 13:39                         ` David Laight
2019-06-11 15:46                 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:40                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:45                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 14:18                   ` David Laight
2019-06-12 15:11                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 15:37                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13  8:48                     ` David Laight
2019-06-13  9:43                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13 10:56                         ` David Laight
2019-06-13 12:43                           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2019-06-11 18:55               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-11 19:02                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12  8:39                 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:09                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41         ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] signal/kvm: Stop using sigprocmask in kvm_sigset_(activate|deactivate) Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:42         ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] signal: Always keep real_blocked in sync with blocked Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:43         ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] signal: Remove saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:44         ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] signal: Remove the unnecessary restore_sigmask flag Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11 18:58         ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Oleg Nesterov

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