The patch titled Subject: signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is signal-give-send_sig_forced-more-power-to-beat-signal_unkillable.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE force_sig_info() and friends have the special semantics for synchronous signals, this interface should not be used if the target is not current. And it needs the fixes, in particular the clearing of SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE is not exactly right. However there are callers which have to use force_ exactly because it clears SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE and thus it can kill the CLONE_NEWPID tasks, although this is almost always is wrong by various reasons. With this patch SEND_SIG_FORCED ignores SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE, like we do if the signal comes from the ancestor namespace. This makes the naming in prepare_signal() paths insane, fixed by the next cleanup. Note: this only affects SIGKILL/SIGSTOP, but this is enough for force_sig() abusers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signal-give-send_sig_forced-more-power-to-beat-signal_unkillable kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-give-send_sig_forced-more-power-to-beat-signal_unkillable +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -1059,7 +1059,8 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct assert_spin_locked(&t->sighand->siglock); result = TRACE_SIGNAL_IGNORED; - if (!prepare_signal(sig, t, from_ancestor_ns)) + if (!prepare_signal(sig, t, + from_ancestor_ns || (info == SEND_SIG_FORCED))) goto ret; pending = group ? &t->signal->shared_pending : &t->pending; _ Subject: Subject: signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch prctl-add-pr_setget_child_subreaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision.patch prctl-add-pr_setget_child_subreaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision-fix.patch prctl-add-pr_setget_child_subreaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision-fix-fix.patch kernel-exitc-if-init-dies-log-a-signal-which-killed-it-if-any.patch kernel-exitc-if-init-dies-log-a-signal-which-killed-it-if-any-fix.patch signal-give-send_sig_forced-more-power-to-beat-signal_unkillable.patch signal-cosmetic-s-from_ancestor_ns-force-in-prepare_signal-paths.patch signal-oom_kill_task-use-send_sig_forced-instead-of-force_sig.patch signal-zap_pid_ns_processes-s-send_sig_noinfo-send_sig_forced.patch usermodehelper-use-umh_wait_proc-consistently.patch pidns-add-reboot_pid_ns-to-handle-the-reboot-syscall.patch pidns-add-reboot_pid_ns-to-handle-the-reboot-syscall-fix.patch sysctl-make-kernelns_last_pid-control-being-checkpoint_restore-dependent.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