Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:14:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0 i386 watchpoint problems |
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The problem is that the !SI_FROMUSER check in bad_signal() does not work > properly, because SI_FROMUSER does not match the defined SI_* codes (it returns > true for kernel generated signals). The result is that it always looks at > current and what happens depends on the credentials of the current process > (= random)
No. The current process is always the same one we send the signal to, so that test ends up being irrelevant.
Linus
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