The patch titled tracehook: tracehook_consider_ignored_signal has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: tracehook: tracehook_consider_ignored_signal From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> This defines tracehook_consider_ignored_signal() has a fine-grained hook for deciding to prevent the normal short-circuit of sending an ignored signal, as ptrace does. There is no change, only cleanup. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/tracehook.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ kernel/signal.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/tracehook.h~tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal include/linux/tracehook.h --- a/include/linux/tracehook.h~tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal +++ a/include/linux/tracehook.h @@ -312,4 +312,23 @@ static inline void tracehook_signal_hand ptrace_notify(SIGTRAP); } +/** + * tracehook_consider_ignored_signal - suppress short-circuit of ignored signal + * @task: task receiving the signal + * @sig: signal number being sent + * @handler: %SIG_IGN or %SIG_DFL + * + * Return zero iff tracing doesn't care to examine this ignored signal, + * so it can short-circuit normal delivery and never even get queued. + * Either @handler is %SIG_DFL and @sig's default is ignore, or it's %SIG_IGN. + * + * Called with @task->sighand->siglock held. + */ +static inline int tracehook_consider_ignored_signal(struct task_struct *task, + int sig, + void __user *handler) +{ + return (task_ptrace(task) & PT_PTRACED) != 0; +} + #endif /* <linux/tracehook.h> */ diff -puN kernel/signal.c~tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/ptrace.h> #include <linux/signal.h> #include <linux/signalfd.h> +#include <linux/tracehook.h> #include <linux/capability.h> #include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/pid_namespace.h> @@ -39,24 +40,21 @@ static struct kmem_cache *sigqueue_cachep; -static int __sig_ignored(struct task_struct *t, int sig) +static void __user *sig_handler(struct task_struct *t, int sig) { - void __user *handler; + return t->sighand->action[sig - 1].sa.sa_handler; +} +static int sig_handler_ignored(void __user *handler, int sig) +{ /* Is it explicitly or implicitly ignored? */ - - handler = t->sighand->action[sig - 1].sa.sa_handler; return handler == SIG_IGN || (handler == SIG_DFL && sig_kernel_ignore(sig)); } static int sig_ignored(struct task_struct *t, int sig) { - /* - * Tracers always want to know about signals.. - */ - if (t->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) - return 0; + void __user *handler; /* * Blocked signals are never ignored, since the @@ -66,7 +64,14 @@ static int sig_ignored(struct task_struc if (sigismember(&t->blocked, sig) || sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig)) return 0; - return __sig_ignored(t, sig); + handler = sig_handler(t, sig); + if (!sig_handler_ignored(handler, sig)) + return 0; + + /* + * Tracers may want to know about even ignored signals. + */ + return !tracehook_consider_ignored_signal(t, sig, handler); } /* @@ -2298,7 +2303,7 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigac * (for example, SIGCHLD), shall cause the pending signal to * be discarded, whether or not it is blocked" */ - if (__sig_ignored(t, sig)) { + if (sig_handler_ignored(sig_handler(t, sig), sig)) { sigemptyset(&mask); sigaddset(&mask, sig); rm_from_queue_full(&mask, &t->signal->shared_pending); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roland@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch flag-parameters-paccept-fix.patch flag-parameters-paccept-fix-flag-parameters-arch-specific-sock_nonblock.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch signals-make-siginfo_t-si_utime-si_sstime-report-times-in-user_hz-not-hz.patch kernel-signalc-change-vars-pid-and-tgid-types-to-pid_t.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_stop-sigkill_pending-path.patch ptrace-do_wait-reorganization.patch ptrace-ptrace-children-revamp.patch ptrace-do_wait-return-security_task_wait-error-code-in-place-of-echild.patch ptrace-fix-dangling-zombie-when-new-parent-ignores-children.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-turn-mm-core_startup_done-into-the-pointer-to-struct-core_state.patch coredump-move-mm-core_waiters-into-struct-core_state.patch coredump-simplify-core_state-nr_threads-calculation.patch coredump-turn-core_state-nr_threads-into-atomic_t.patch coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump.patch coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-elf_fdpic_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-kill-mm-core_done.patch coredump-binfmt_elf_fdpic-dont-use-sub-threads-mm.patch coredump-exit_mm-clear-mm-first-then-play-with-core_state.patch coredump-exit_mm-clear-mm-first-then-play-with-core_state-checkpatch-fixes.patch tracehook-add-linux-tracehookh.patch tracehook-exec.patch tracehook-unexport-ptrace_notify.patch tracehook-exit.patch tracehook-clone.patch tracehook-vfork-done.patch tracehook-release_task.patch tracehook-tracehook_tracer_task.patch tracehook-tracehook_expect_breakpoints.patch tracehook-tracehook_signal_handler.patch tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal.patch tracehook-tracehook_consider_fatal_signal.patch tracehook-syscall.patch tracehook-get_signal_to_deliver.patch tracehook-job-control.patch tracehook-death.patch tracehook-force-signal_pending.patch tracehook-tif_notify_resume.patch tracehook-asm-syscallh.patch tracehook-config_have_arch_tracehook.patch tracehook-wait_task_inactive.patch task_current_syscall.patch proc-pid-syscall.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html