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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] exit: kill struct waitid_info
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:40:52AM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/24, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > Note that this changes how struct siginfo is filled in for users of
> > waitid.
>
> Namely, copy_siginfo_to_user() will nullify the extra SI_EXPANSION_SIZE
> bytes + 2*sizeof(__ARCH_SI_CLOCK_T) from _sigchld (waitid doesn't report
> utime/stime in siginfo).
>
> Looks correct... even the compat case, but please double-check
> copy_siginfo_to_user32/siginfo_layout. Looks like both SIL_KILL and
> SIL_CHLD cases are fine in that this patch can't add other user-visible
> changes, but I could easily miss something.
>
> > In case
> > anyone relies on the old behavior we can just revert
>
> we won't need to rever the whole patch, we can just replace
> copy_siginfo_to_user() with copy_to_user(offsetof(si_utime)).
>
> I see you are going to update the changelog and resend, feel free to add
> my reviewed-by.

Will do.
Thanks, Oleg!
Christian

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