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
prev 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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