Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: disassociate_ctty() sends the extra SIGCONT

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

On 09/15/2013 11:50 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Starting from v3.10 (probably f91e2590 "tty: Signal foreground
> group processes in hangup") disassociate_ctty() sends SIGCONT
> if tty && on_exit. This breaks LSB test-suite, in particular
> test8 in _exit.c and test40 in sigcon5.c.

Yes, this regression was introduced by me in that commit.
The effect of the regression is that ptys will receive a
SIGCONT when, in similar circumstances, ttys would not.

The fact that two test vectors accidentally tripped over
this regression suggests that some other apps may as well.

Thanks for catching this.

> Put the "!on_exit" check back to restore the old behaviour.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Karel Srot <ksrot@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>

> ---
>   drivers/tty/tty_io.c |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> index a9355ce..3a1a01a 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> @@ -854,7 +854,8 @@ void disassociate_ctty(int on_exit)
>   			struct pid *tty_pgrp = tty_get_pgrp(tty);
>   			if (tty_pgrp) {
>   				kill_pgrp(tty_pgrp, SIGHUP, on_exit);
> -				kill_pgrp(tty_pgrp, SIGCONT, on_exit);
> +				if (!on_exit)
> +					kill_pgrp(tty_pgrp, SIGCONT, on_exit);
>   				put_pid(tty_pgrp);
>   			}
>   		}
>