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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, roland@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] signal: make group kill signal fatal
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 02:07:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090525000750.GA2301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243198054-13816-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com>

On 05/24, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> __fatal_signal_pending() returns now true only for a non-group sent
> sigkill, i. e. for example tgkill, send_sig...

No. Please look at complete_signal(). If we queue a fatal signal,
we always add SIGKILL to any thread.

> Use sigkill_pending()

Please do not use it, it should die.

> in __fatal_signal_pending() which adds a test also
> for shared_pending queue.

See above. Afaics this is not needed.

> Also grab siglock in __fatal_signal_pending().

This is wrong. It can be called when the task has already died
and its ->signal == NULL.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-25  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-24 20:47 [PATCH 1/1] signal: make group kill signal fatal Jiri Slaby
2009-05-25  0:07 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-25 16:21   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-05-25 17:20     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-25 18:15       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-05-25 22:51         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-02 12:54           ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-02 14:50             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-03  1:52               ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-04  2:27                 ` Oleg Nesterov

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