This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
signal: remove warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
signal-remove-warning-about-using-si_tkill-in-rt_sigqueueinfo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 69828dce7af2cb6d08ef5a03de687d422fb7ec1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:47:35 -0700
Subject: signal: remove warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 69828dce7af2cb6d08ef5a03de687d422fb7ec1f upstream.
Sending SI_TKILL from rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo was deprecated, so now we issue
a warning on the first attempt of doing it. We use WARN_ON_ONCE, which is
not informative and, what is worse, taints the kernel, making the trinity
syscall fuzzer complain false-positively from time to time.
It does not look like we need this warning at all, because the behaviour
changed quite a long time ago (2.6.39), and if an application relies on
the old API, it gets EPERM anyway and can issue a warning by itself.
So let us zap the warning in kernel.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3004,11 +3004,9 @@ static int do_rt_sigqueueinfo(pid_t pid,
* Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
*/
if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
- (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
- /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+ (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
return -EPERM;
- }
+
info->si_signo = sig;
/* POSIX.1b doesn't mention process groups. */
@@ -3053,12 +3051,10 @@ static int do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tg
/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
* Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
*/
- if (((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL)) &&
- (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
- /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+ if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
+ (task_pid_vnr(current) != pid))
return -EPERM;
- }
+
info->si_signo = sig;
return do_send_specific(tgid, pid, sig, info);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/signal-remove-warning-about-using-si_tkill-in-rt_sigqueueinfo.patch
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