From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Paul Dolan <paul.dolan.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/proc: avoid exit() from SIGALRM handler
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 19:40:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a07fc37b-11e3-48a4-a89c-4b59e867e961@p183> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904123752.157562-1-paul.dolan.dev@gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 01:37:52PM +0100, Paul Dolan wrote:
> proc-tid0 uses SIGALRM to stop the test after one second, but the
> signal handler calls exit(), which is not async-signal-safe.
>
> Set a sig_atomic_t flag from the handler instead and let the main loop
> terminate normally. This also preserves the existing atexit cleanup
> that kills the worker child.
>
> Fixes: 0658a0961b0a ("procfs: do not list TID 0 in /proc/<pid>/task")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Dolan <paul.dolan.dev@gmail.com>
Yeah, yeah.
Reviewed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> static void sigalrm(int _)
> {
> - exit(0);
> + alarmed = 1;
> }
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