On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:06:16 -0800 Andrei Vagin <ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a few system calls (pselect, ppoll, etc) which replace a task
> sigmask while they are running in a kernel-space
>
> When a task calls one of these syscalls, the kernel saves a current
> sigmask in task->saved_sigmask and sets a syscall sigmask.
>
> On syscall-exit-stop, ptrace traps a task before restoring the
> saved_sigmask, so PTRACE_GETSIGMASK returns the syscall sigmask and
> PTRACE_SETSIGMASK does nothing, because its sigmask is replaced by
> saved_sigmask, when the task returns to user-space.
>
> This patch fixes this problem. PTRACE_GET_SIGMASK returns saved_sigmask
> is it's set. PTRACE_SETSIGMASK drops the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag.
Looks good to me, but what would I know. I'll await input from Eric
and/or Oleg (please).
> --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
> @@ -417,10 +417,20 @@ static inline void set_restore_sigmask(void)
> set_thread_flag(TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK);
> WARN_ON(!test_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING));
> }
> +
> +static inline void clear_tsk_restore_sigmask(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> + clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK);
> +}
How irritating is it that this file uses "task" 85 times and "tsk" 19
times? What did that gain us? This patch worsens things.
Oh well.
