Thread (53 messages) 53 messages, 9 authors, 2012-02-29

Re: [PATCH v11 08/12] signal, x86: add SIGSYS info and make it synchronous.

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-02-27 17:29:46
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On 02/24, Will Drewry wrote:
To ensure that SIGSYS delivery occurs on return from the triggering
system call, SIGSYS is added to the SYNCHRONOUS_MASK macro.
Hmm. Can't understand... please help.
 #define SYNCHRONOUS_MASK \
 	(sigmask(SIGSEGV) | sigmask(SIGBUS) | sigmask(SIGILL) | \
-	 sigmask(SIGTRAP) | sigmask(SIGFPE))
+	 sigmask(SIGTRAP) | sigmask(SIGFPE) | sigmask(SIGSYS))
Why?

SYNCHRONOUS_MASK just tells dequeue_signal() "pick them first".
This is needed to make sure that the handler for, say SIGSEGV,
can use ucontext->ip as a faulting addr.

But seccomp adds info->si_call_addr, this looks unneeded.

Oleg.
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