[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 5 17:09:11 PDT 2009


Oleg Nesterov [oleg at redhat.com] wrote:
| No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser()
| and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper.
| 
| The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider
| SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true
| if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal()
| has another opinion - see the next patch.
| 
| The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad imho.
| >From __send_signal()'s pov they mean
| 
| 	SEND_SIG_NOINFO		from user
| 	SEND_SIG_PRIV		from kernel
| 	SEND_SIG_FORCED		no info
| 
| Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>

Renaming the special siginfo cases be done independently.

Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
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