Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi.

On Friday 19 October 2007 08:22:35 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for 
example).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>

> ---
>  kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-mm1.orig/kernel/signal.c
> +++ linux-2.6.23-mm1/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct t
>  
>  void recalc_sigpending(void)
>  {
> -	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current))
> +	if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current))
>  		clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
>  
>  }
> 



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