[PATCH 0/2] ptrace && SIGKILL fixes

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 12:50:00 EST


These 2 patches don't depend on each other. Each change is user visible,
and I am not really sure it can't confuse debuggers/etc. The explicit
ack/nack from maintainers is wanted.

If the first patch won't get Roland's ack, the nasty TASK_TRACED check in
signal_pending_state() should die anyway. Something like the (incomplete)
patch below.

Oleg.

--- include/linux/sched.h
+++ include/linux/sched.h
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ extern unsigned long long time_sync_thre
#define TASK_RUNNING 0
#define TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE 1
#define TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 2
-#define __TASK_STOPPED 4
-#define __TASK_TRACED 8
+#define TASK_STOPPED 4
+#define TASK_TRACED 8
/* in tsk->exit_state */
#define EXIT_ZOMBIE 16
#define EXIT_DEAD 32
@@ -184,8 +184,6 @@ extern unsigned long long time_sync_thre

/* Convenience macros for the sake of set_task_state */
#define TASK_KILLABLE (TASK_WAKEKILL | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
-#define TASK_STOPPED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED)
-#define TASK_TRACED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)

/* Convenience macros for the sake of wake_up */
#define TASK_NORMAL (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
@@ -2034,9 +2032,6 @@ static inline int signal_pending_state(l
if (!signal_pending(p))
return 0;

- if (state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED))
- return 0;
-
return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
}

--- kernel/signal.c
+++ kernel/signal.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *
*/
mask = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
if (resume)
- mask |= TASK_WAKEKILL;
+ mask |= (TASK_WAKEKILL | TASK_STOPPED | TASK_TRACED);
if (!wake_up_state(t, mask))
kick_process(t);
}

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