Re: [PATCH] Fix sigaltstack corruption among cloned threads

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:16:17AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 3/13/06, GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org> wrote:
> > +        * sigaltstack should be cleared when CLONE_SIGHAND (and CLONE_VM) is
> > +        * specified.
> > +        */
> > +       if (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)
> > +               p->sas_ss_sp = p->sas_ss_size = 0;
> 
> I agree in general, but why base it on CLONE_SIGHAND? The problem
> results from using the same address space.  So it should be
> 
>   if (clone_flags & CLONE_VM)
> 
> The fact that both these flags are used at the same time in all cases
> today shouldn't hide the real reason for this requirement which is
> sharing the address space.

Because vfork also sets CLONE_VM and vfork isn't supposed to reset
alternate stack setting.  For vfork that's not a problem, as the parent task
will not continue until the vfork child execve's.  So, if you want to use
CLONE_VM bit, you'd need to use
	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM | CLONE_VFORK)) == CLONE_VM)
		p->sas_ss_sp = p->sas_ss_size = 0;

	Jakub