[patch] Re: New failures in nightly LTP test

[patch] Re: New failures in nightly LTP test

[Ingo Molnar]

On 13 Sep 2002, Paul Larson wrote:

> The nightly LTP test against the 2.5 kernel bk tree last night turned up
> some test failures we don't normally see.  These failures did not show
> up in the run from the previous night.

[...]
> I found what was breaking this, looks like it was this change from your
> shared thread signals patch:
> -	if (sig < 1 || sig > _NSIG ||
> -	    (act && (sig == SIGKILL || sig == SIGSTOP)))
> +	if (sig < 1 || sig > _NSIG || (act && sig_kernel_only(sig)))

the attached patch (against BK-curr) fixes this bug and a number of others
in the same class - the signal behavior bitmasks should never be consulted
before making sure that the signal is in the word range. Paul, does this
fix all the LTP regressions?

	Ingo

--- linux/kernel/signal.c.orig	Sat Sep 14 11:25:30 2002
+++ linux/kernel/signal.c	Sat Sep 14 11:42:29 2002
@@ -118,14 +118,18 @@
 #define T(sig, mask) \
 	((1UL << (sig)) & mask)
 
-#define sig_user_specific(sig)		T(sig, SIG_USER_SPECIFIC_MASK)
+#define sig_user_specific(sig) \
+		(((sig) < SIGRTMIN)  && T(sig, SIG_USER_SPECIFIC_MASK))
 #define sig_user_load_balance(sig) \
-		(T(sig, SIG_USER_LOAD_BALANCE_MASK) || ((sig) >= SIGRTMIN))
-#define sig_kernel_specific(sig)	T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_SPECIFIC_MASK)
+		(((sig) >= SIGRTMIN) || T(sig, SIG_USER_LOAD_BALANCE_MASK))
+#define sig_kernel_specific(sig) \
+		(((sig) < SIGRTMIN)  && T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_SPECIFIC_MASK))
 #define sig_kernel_broadcast(sig) \
-		(T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_BROADCAST_MASK) || ((sig) >= SIGRTMIN))
-#define sig_kernel_only(sig)		T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK)
-#define sig_kernel_coredump(sig)	T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_COREDUMP_MASK)
+		(((sig) >= SIGRTMIN) || T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_BROADCAST_MASK))
+#define sig_kernel_only(sig) \
+		(((sig) < SIGRTMIN)  && T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK))
+#define sig_kernel_coredump(sig) \
+		(((sig) < SIGRTMIN)  && T(sig, SIG_KERNEL_COREDUMP_MASK))
 
 #define sig_user_defined(t, sig) \
 	(((t)->sig->action[(sig)-1].sa.sa_handler != SIG_DFL) &&	\

Re: [patch] Re: New failures in nightly LTP test

[Paul Larson]

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 05:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> the attached patch (against BK-curr) fixes this bug and a number of others
> in the same class - the signal behavior bitmasks should never be consulted
> before making sure that the signal is in the word range. Paul, does this
> fix all the LTP regressions?
Yes, it worked great.  Sorry for the delay, I was away for the weekend.

Thanks,
Paul Larson