Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: add the "int si_code" arg to prepare_kill_siginfo()

From: Tycho Andersen
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 15:01:58 EST


On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 08:36:24PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:39:14PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 02/09, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >
> > > Could you can pass in the destination type instead of the si_code?
> > > Something like I have shown below?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > info->si_code = (type == PIDTYPE_PID) ? SI_TKILL : SI_USER;
> >
> > Yes, I considered this option too.
> >
> > OK, will send V3 tomorrow.
>
> Hm, I don't think that's necessary if you're happy to have me just fix
> that up in tree. Here's the two patches updated. It was straightforward
> but I have a baby on my lap so double check, please:
>
> From 05ffda39f6f5c887cae319274366cbf856c88fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 14:06:20 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] signal: fill in si_code in prepare_kill_siginfo()
>
> So that do_tkill() can use this helper too. This also simplifies
> the next patch.
>
> TODO: perhaps we can kill prepare_kill_siginfo() and change the
> callers to use SEND_SIG_NOINFO, but this needs some changes in
> __send_signal_locked() and TP_STORE_SIGINFO().
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209130620.GA8039@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me as well,

Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@xxxxxxxxxxx>