From: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 13:41:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABeXuvo5Y0aHgo-xMzmW7V02g+ysGqAkdoCAkW7L6LkukdvAcg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABeXuvo-wey+NHWb4gi=FSRrjJOKkVcLPQ-J+dchJeHEbhGQ6g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:06 AM Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, since there has been quite a bit of argument here, I will
> backtrack a little bit and maybe it will help us understand what's
> happening here.
> There are many scenarios being discussed on this thread:
> a. State of code before 854a6ed56839a
> b. State after 854a6ed56839a
> c. Proposed fix as per the patchset in question.
>
> Oleg, I will discuss these first and then we can discuss the
> additional changes you suggested.
>
> Some background on why we have these syscalls that take sigmask as an
> argument. This is just for the sake of completeness of the argument.
>
> These are particularly meant for a scenario(d) such as below:
>
> 1. block the signals you don't care about.
> 2. syscall()
> 3. unblock the signals blocked in 1.
>
> The problem here is that if there is a signal that is not blocked by 1
> and such a signal is delivered between 1 and 2(since they are not
> atomic), the syscall in 2 might block forever as it never found out
> about the signal.
>
> As per [a] and let's consider the case of epoll_pwait only first for simplicity.
>
> As I said before, ep_poll() is what checks for signal_pending() and is
> responsible for setting errno to -EINTR when there is a signal.
>
> So if a signal is received after ep_poll() and ep_poll() returns
> success, it is never noticed by the syscall during execution.
> So the question is does the userspace have to know about this signal
> or not. From scenario [d] above, I would say it should, even if all
> the fd's completed successfully.
> This does not happen in [a]. So this is what I said was already broken.
>
> What [b] does is to move the signal check closer to the restoration of
> the signal. This way it is good. So, if there is a signal after
> ep_poll() returns success, it is noticed and the signal is delivered
> when the syscall exits. But, the syscall error status itself is 0.
>
> So now [c] is adjusting the return values based on whether extra
> signals were detected after ep_poll(). This part was needed even for
> [a].
>
> Let me know if this clarifies things a bit.
Just adding a little more clarification, there is an additional change
between [a] and [b].
As per [a] we would just restore the signal instead of changing the
saved_sigmask and the signal could get delivered right then. [b]
changes this to happen at syscall exit:
void restore_user_sigmask(const void __user *usigmask, sigset_t *sigsaved)
{
<snip>
/*
* When signals are pending, do not restore them here.
* Restoring sigmask here can lead to delivering signals
that the above
* syscalls are intended to block because of the sigmask passed in.
*/
if (signal_pending(current)) {
current->saved_sigmask = *sigsaved;
set_restore_sigmask();
return;
}
-Deepa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-23 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-22 3:21 [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask() Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 15:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 15:55 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 16:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 16:33 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 9:03 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:18 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 16:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:56 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 18:06 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 20:41 ` Deepa Dinamani [this message]
2019-05-23 21:06 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 9:58 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:16 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 16:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 17:01 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-27 15:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-28 20:47 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 18:42 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28 9:02 ` David Laight
2019-05-28 9:12 ` David Laight
2019-05-28 11:37 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28 12:04 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:29 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 14:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 13:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:59 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:09 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 16:40 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 22:18 ` Chris Down
2019-05-22 22:52 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:11 ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 16:54 ` David Laight
2019-05-29 18:50 ` Eric Wong
2019-05-30 9:34 ` David Laight
2019-05-30 13:04 ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-29 16:56 ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 18:26 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 22:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 1:54 ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 18:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 14:40 ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 18:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 13:01 ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:18 ` David Laight
2019-05-30 16:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 15:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:48 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:59 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 17:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 16:22 ` David Laight
2019-05-30 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 21:03 ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 13:41 ` [PATCH] signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-04 15:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-04 15:57 ` David Laight
2019-06-04 16:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-04 18:14 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-06-04 18:35 ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-04 22:24 ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-05 9:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 8:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 9:02 ` David Laight
2019-06-05 9:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 9:58 ` David Laight
2019-06-05 15:58 ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] signal: simplify set_user_sigmask/restore_user_sigmask Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 15:58 ` [PATCH -mm 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 0:14 ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06 1:06 ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06 7:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 7:30 ` Sedat Dilek
2019-06-05 17:24 ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] " Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06 9:05 ` David Laight
2019-06-06 11:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:29 ` David Laight
2019-06-06 12:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 13:23 ` David Laight
2019-06-06 10:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:32 ` [PATCH -mm V2 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] select: simplify the usage of restore_saved_sigmask_unless() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06 14:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 21:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-10 16:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-10 21:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11 9:52 ` David Laight
2019-06-11 11:14 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:24 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 13:39 ` David Laight
2019-06-11 15:46 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 14:18 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 15:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 15:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13 8:48 ` David Laight
2019-06-13 9:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13 10:56 ` David Laight
2019-06-13 12:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-11 18:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-11 19:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 8:39 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] signal/kvm: Stop using sigprocmask in kvm_sigset_(activate|deactivate) Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:42 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] signal: Always keep real_blocked in sync with blocked Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:43 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] signal: Remove saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:44 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] signal: Remove the unnecessary restore_sigmask flag Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11 18:58 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Oleg Nesterov
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