From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] signalfd fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reporting
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:08:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410120845.8e7132d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804101152090.9668@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk found out that signalfd was not reporting back user data
> pushed using sigqueue:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/9397cab8551e3123
>
> The following patch makes signalfd to report back the ssi_ptr and ssi_int
> members of the signalfd_siginfo structure.
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
>
>
> - Davide
>
>
> ---
> fs/signalfd.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/signalfd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/signalfd.c 2008-04-09 11:53:37.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/signalfd.c 2008-04-09 12:05:46.000000000 -0700
> @@ -111,9 +111,14 @@
> err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_uid, &uinfo->ssi_uid);
> err |= __put_user((long) kinfo->si_ptr, &uinfo->ssi_ptr);
> break;
> - default: /* this is just in case for now ... */
> + default:
> + /*
> + * This case catches also the signals queued by sigqueue().
> + */
> err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_pid, &uinfo->ssi_pid);
> err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_uid, &uinfo->ssi_uid);
> + err |= __put_user((long) kinfo->si_ptr, &uinfo->ssi_ptr);
> + err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_int, &uinfo->ssi_int);
> break;
> }
>
I queued this for both 2.6.25 and 2.6.24.x. Agree?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 18:57 Davide Libenzi
2008-04-10 19:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-10 19:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-10 19:17 ` Michael Kerrisk
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