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SubjectRe: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals
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On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 09:16 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Quite frankly, it strikes me that if we want to do this, then we shouldn't
> > save the _process_ information at all, we should save the "sighand"
> > instead.
> >
> > So either we save the process info, or we save the sighand, but saving the
> > "group_leader" seems totally bogus. Especially as the group leader can
> > change (by execve()).
> >
> > One thing that strikes me as I look at that function is that the whole
> > signalfd thing doesn't seem to do any reference counting. Ie it looks
> > totally buggy wrt passing the resulting fd off to somebody else, and then
> > exiting in the original process.
> >
> > What did I miss?
>
> Probably nothing... doesn't look good. What are the lifetime rules of a
> struct sighand tho ?

Ah got it, signalfd_detach() in include/linux/signalfd.h from
exit_signal plus some rcu bits in signalfd lock/unlock.

Ben.


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