flag parameters: signalfd

This patch adds the new signalfd4 syscall.  It extends the old signalfd
syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value.  In this
patch the only flag support is SFD_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.

A new name SFD_CLOEXEC is introduced which in this implementation must
have the same value as O_CLOEXEC.

The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.

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#include <fcntl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#ifndef __NR_signalfd4
# ifdef __x86_64__
#  define __NR_signalfd4 289
# elif defined __i386__
#  define __NR_signalfd4 327
# else
#  error "need __NR_signalfd4"
# endif
#endif

#define SFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC

int
main (void)
{
  sigset_t ss;
  sigemptyset (&ss);
  sigaddset (&ss, SIGUSR1);
  int fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, 0);
  if (fd == -1)
    {
      puts ("signalfd4(0) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
  if (coe == -1)
    {
      puts ("fcntl failed");
      return 1;
    }
  if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
    {
      puts ("signalfd4(0) set close-on-exec flag");
      return 1;
    }
  close (fd);

  fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, SFD_CLOEXEC);
  if (fd == -1)
    {
      puts ("signalfd4(SFD_CLOEXEC) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
  if (coe == -1)
    {
      puts ("fcntl failed");
      return 1;
    }
  if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
    {
      puts ("signalfd4(SFD_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exec flag");
      return 1;
    }
  close (fd);

  puts ("OK");

  return 0;
}
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[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ni stub]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/signalfd.h b/include/linux/signalfd.h
index ea037f28df9..8b3f7b7420a 100644
--- a/include/linux/signalfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/signalfd.h
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H
 #define _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H
 
+/* For O_CLOEXEC */
+#include <linux/fcntl.h>
+
+/* Flags for signalfd4.  */
+#define SFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
 
 struct signalfd_siginfo {
 	__u32 ssi_signo;