From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
'Oleg Nesterov' <oleg@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: pselect/etc semantics
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 08:04:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef4grt3h.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190529185012.qqeqq4fsolprknrz@dcvr> (Eric Wong's message of "Wed, 29 May 2019 18:50:12 +0000")
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> Agreed... I believe cmogstored has always had a bug in the way
> it uses epoll_pwait because it failed to check interrupts if:
>
> a) an FD is ready + interrupt
> b) epoll_pwait returns 0 on interrupt
>
> The bug remains in userspace for a), which I will fix by adding
> an interrupt check when an FD is ready. The window is very
> small for a) and difficult to trigger, and also in a rare code
> path.
>
> The b) case is the kernel bug introduced in 854a6ed56839a40f
> ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()").
>
> I don't think there's any disagreement that b) is a kernel bug.
See my reply to Oleg. I think (b) is a regression that needs to be
fixed. I do not think that (b) is a kernel bug. Both versions of the
of what sigmask means posix and naive will allow (b).
Because fundamentally the sigmask is restored after the rest of the
system call happens.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-30 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ 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
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 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2019-05-29 16:56 ` 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
2019-06-11 18:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
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