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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	jmoskovc@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch,
	abelay@mit.edu, gregkh@suse.de, spock@gentoo.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, neilb@suse.de, mfasheh@suse.com,
	menage@google.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	takedakn@nttdata.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] exec: allow core_pipe recursion check to look for a value of 1 rather than 0 (v2)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:39:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100201103933.GA32188@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100201102936.GA31611@redhat.com>

On 02/01, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Oh. And in theory, it is better to change wait_for_helper(). It should
> do allow_signal(SIGCHLD) after kernel_thread(). Otherwise, kernel_thread()
> can fail if user-space sends SIGCHLD to the forking thread.

Well ;) And since allow_signal(SIGCHLD) was called, in theory we should
call sys_wait4() + clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING) in a loop to protect
against the false SIGCHLD.

> > > Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
> > > check?
> > >
> > That I can't explain.  I figured I'd let that sleeping dog lie until this got
> > striaghtened out and fix it separately if it needed it
> > Neil
>
> Yes, yes, agreed. As I said, this has nothing to do with this series,
> even if I am right these (minor) bugs should be fixed separately.

Yes.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-01 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21 20:08 [PATCH] exec: allow core_pipe recursion check to look for a value of 1 rather than 0 Neil Horman
2010-01-21 21:29 ` Thomas Sailer
2010-01-25 21:13   ` Neil Horman
2010-01-26 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] exec: allow core_pipe recursion check to look for a value of 1 rather than 0 (v2) Neil Horman
2010-01-29 15:13   ` [PATCH 1/2] " Neil Horman
2010-01-31 14:46     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-01-31 15:41       ` Neil Horman
2010-01-29 15:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Neil Horman
2010-01-31 15:50     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-01-31 17:41       ` Neil Horman
2010-02-01 10:29         ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-01 10:39           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-02-01 13:16           ` Neil Horman
2010-02-01 14:18             ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-02 19:19 ` [PATCH 0/2] exec: refactor how call_usermodehelper works, and update the sense of the core_pipe recursion check (v3) Neil Horman
2010-02-02 19:20   ` [PATCH 1/2] " Neil Horman
2010-02-03 20:09     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-02 19:21   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Neil Horman

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