Re: [PATCH] Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:39:00 +0300, Lauri Vasama wrote:
> For a user mode library to avoid generating SIGPIPE signals (e.g.
> because this behaviour is not portable across operating systems) is
> cumbersome. It is generally bad form to change the process-wide signal
> mask in a library, so a local solution is needed instead.
> 
> For I/O performed directly using system calls (synchronous or readiness
> based asynchronous) this currently involves applying a thread-specific
> signal mask before the operation and reverting it afterwards. This can be
> avoided when it is known that the file descriptor refers to neither a
> pipe nor a socket, but a conservative implementation must always apply
> the mask. This incurs the cost of two additional system calls. In the
> case of sockets, the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag can be used with send.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.18.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.18.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.18.misc

[1/1] Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/db2ab24a341c