Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits

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On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:26:02AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I'm just wondering why you return a SIGSEGV.

I've taken the SIGSEGV from binfmt_elf.c, where it is used on "Unable to
load interpreter", a condition that commonly occurs on OOM.

> When the kernel kills
> tasks on OOM conditions, it sends either SIGTERM or SIGKILL, as we
> can see here in mm/oom_kill.c:__oom_kill_task() :
> 
>         p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE;
>         /* This process has hardware access, be more careful. */
>         if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
>                 force_sig(SIGTERM, p);
>         } else {
>                 force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
>         }
> 
> Shouldn't we simply re-use the same code ?

I have no objections.

Thanks,

Alexander