From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758028AbYDJTJU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbYDJTJL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41214 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750975AbYDJTJL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:08:45 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Davide Libenzi 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 Message-Id: <20080410120845.8e7132d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Davide Libenzi 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 > > > - 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?