Re: [PATCH 14/20] exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure

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Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:44:00PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Use force_fatal_sig instead of calling do_exit directly.  This ensures
>> the ordinary signal handling path gets invoked, core dumps as
>> appropriate get created, and for multi-threaded processes all of the
>> threads are terminated not just a single thread.
>
> Yeah, looks good. Should be no visible behavior change.

It is observable in that an entire multi-threaded process gets
terminated instead of a single thread.  But since these events should
be handling of extra-ordinary events I don't expect there is anyone
who wants to have a thread of their process survive.

Eric




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