From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: skip blocked signals in dequeue_synchronous_signal()
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:45:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <athtohIFTQig6_cF@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020181101.1605736-1-thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
On 10/20, Avi Weiss wrote:
>
> dequeue_synchronous_signal() checks whether an unblocked
> synchronous signal is pending, but its queue scan can select a
> different blocked entry with a positive si_code. This can deliver
> a signal while it is still blocked.
Heh ;) I can't understand how no one noticed this before.
> /*
> - * Return the first synchronous signal in the queue.
> + * Return the first unblocked synchronous signal in the queue.
> */
> list_for_each_entry(q, &pending->list, list) {
> /* Synchronous signals have a positive si_code */
> if ((q->info.si_code > SI_USER) &&
> - (sigmask(q->info.si_signo) & SYNCHRONOUS_MASK)) {
> + (sigmask(q->info.si_signo) & SYNCHRONOUS_MASK) &&
> + !sigismember(&tsk->blocked, q->info.si_signo)) {
> sync = q;
> goto next;
> }
Thanks! I'll send a minor cleanup on top of this patch later.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 18:11 Avi Weiss
2026-10-21 7:45 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-10-21 13:46 ` Christian Brauner
2026-10-22 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
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