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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: oleg@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, roland@redhat.com
Cc: daniel@hozac.com, bastian@waldi.eu.org, xemul@openvz.org,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] SEND_SIG_NOINFO: Set si_pid to tgid instead of pid
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:06:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217020601.GB2866@us.ibm.com> (raw)


From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] SEND_SIG_NOINFO: Set si_pid to tgid instead of pid

POSIX requires the si_pid to be the process id of the sender, so ->si_pid
should really be set to 'tgid'. This change does have following changes
in behavior:

	- When sending pdeath_signal on re-parent to a sub-thread, ->si_pid
	  cannot be used to identify the thread that did the re-parent since
	  it will now show the tgid instead of thread id.

	- A multi-threaded application that expects to find the specific
	  thread that encountered a SIGPIPE using the ->si_pid will now
	  break.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index d11e5f8..700d767 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
 			q->info.si_signo = sig;
 			q->info.si_errno = 0;
 			q->info.si_code = SI_USER;
-			q->info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current,
+			q->info.si_pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current,
 							task_active_pid_ns(t));
 			q->info.si_uid = current_uid();
 			break;
-- 
1.5.2.5


             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17  2:06 Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2008-12-17  3:17 ` [RFC][PATCH] SEND_SIG_NOINFO: Set si_pid to tgid instead of pid Roland McGrath
2008-12-17  3:20   ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-18  3:58 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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