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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, roland@redhat.com,
	bastian@waldi.eu.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6][v3] Container-init signal semantics
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:51:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081223165121.GA18031@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081221005106.GA4912@us.ibm.com>

Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> 
> Container-init must behave like global-init to processes within the
> container and hence it must be immune to unhandled fatal signals from
> within the container (i.e SIG_DFL signals that terminate the process).
> 
> But the same container-init must behave like a normal process to 
> processes in ancestor namespaces and so if it receives the same fatal
> signal from a process in ancestor namespace, the signal must be
> processed.
> 
> Implementing these semantics requires that send_signal() determine pid
> namespace of the sender but since signals can originate from workqueues/
> interrupt-handlers, determining pid namespace of sender may not always
> be possible or safe.

Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Tested sending signals to a custom container-init.

Are you planning to address Oleg's comments with a new patch-set,
or with patches on top of this set?

thanks,
-serge

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-23 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-21  0:51 [RFC][PATCH 0/6][v3] Container-init signal semantics Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-21  0:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6][v3] Remove 'handler' parameter to tracehook functions Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23 19:30   ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-21  0:53 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6][v3] Protect init from unwanted signals more Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23 19:31   ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-21  0:53 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6][v3] Define/set SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE_FROM_NS Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-21  0:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6][v3] Define siginfo_from_ancestor_ns() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-22 22:26   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-22 23:01     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-22 23:58       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23  0:22         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-23  0:32           ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-12-23  4:47             ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-22 23:45     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-22 23:54       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-21  0:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6][v3] Protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-22 22:46   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-21  0:55 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6][v3] Protect cinit from blocked fatal signals Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-22 22:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-22 23:38     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23  0:03       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-22 10:55 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/6][v3] Container-init signal semantics Eric W. Biederman
2008-12-22 19:47   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23  0:27     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-12-23  2:12       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2008-12-23 16:51 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

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