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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ptraced process waiting on syscall may return kernel internal errnos
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:27:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181186821.14818.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706060811470.4205@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 08:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So now we should do "recalc_sigpending()" only when signals may be
> *added* 
> (where messing with the "blocked" mask obviously is a form of adding 
> signals, and possibly the most common reason for having to recalculate
> the 
> sigpending mask).
> 
> Comments? This patch is _entirely_ and utterly untested, so I'm only 
> saying that this "feels" safer and more correct to me.

Oh and we still need to at least do the if (tsk == current) thingy
for the DRM notifier hack...

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  5:47 [BUG] ptraced process waiting on syscall may return kernel internal errnos Satoru Takeuchi
2007-06-06 10:59 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-06 15:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-06 23:07     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-07  3:25     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-07  3:27     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-06-07 11:33     ` Satoru Takeuchi
2007-06-07 15:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-07 22:24         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-08  3:18           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-08  5:30             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-11 22:16             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-08  3:07         ` Satoru Takeuchi
2007-06-13 22:06     ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-07  3:20   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-13 15:15   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-13 22:36     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-13 23:01       ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-13 23:18         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-14  0:02           ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-13 22:53     ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-14 12:26     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-14 12:58       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-14 23:35         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-15 11:31           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-15 21:48             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-15  0:06         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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