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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Petr Skocik <pskocik@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] *** Fix kill(-1,s) returning 0 on 0 kills ***
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:15:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211220913.AF86992@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221122161240.137570-1-pskocik@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 05:12:40PM +0100, Petr Skocik wrote:
> Hi. I've never sent a kernel patch before but this one seemed trivial,
> so I thought I'd give it a shot.
> 
> My issue: kill(-1,s) on Linux doesn't return -ESCHR when it has nothing
> to kill.

It looks like LTP already tests for this, and gets -ESRCH?
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/containers/pidns/pidns10.c

Does it still pass with your change?

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-22 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-22 16:12 [PATCH 0/1] *** Fix kill(-1,s) returning 0 on 0 kills *** Petr Skocik
2022-11-22 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] Fix kill(-1,s) returning 0 on 0 kills Petr Skocik
2022-11-23 10:30   ` Oleg Nesterov
2022-11-23 11:20     ` Oleg Nesterov
2022-11-23 11:27     ` Petr Skocik
2022-11-23 11:56       ` Oleg Nesterov
2022-11-22 17:15 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-11-22 23:01   ` [PATCH 0/1] *** Fix kill(-1,s) returning 0 on 0 kills *** Petr Skocik
2023-08-09 12:27   ` Petr Skocik
2023-08-10 16:16     ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-10 21:30       ` Petr Skocik
2023-08-11 21:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-11 22:16           ` [PATCH] signal: Fix the error return of kill -1 Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-14 14:06             ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-08-14 15:43               ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-08-15 14:47                 ` David Laight
2023-08-15 15:11                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-08-16 20:32                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-16 21:06                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-08-17  2:33                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-17  4:37                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-08-17 15:47                             ` [PATCH] __kill_pgrp_info: simplify the calculation of return value Oleg Nesterov
2023-08-11 23:37           ` [PATCH 0/1] *** Fix kill(-1,s) returning 0 on 0 kills *** Petr Skocik

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