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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-04-04 21:01:06 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-04-30 19:24:24 +0200
commit62ab4505e3efaf67784f84059e0fb9cedb1728ea (patch)
tree54da8395eaf30a0386cd71214fbabe94ded229e2 /kernel/signal.c
parent30b4ae8a4498543863501f707879b7220b649602 (diff)
signals: implement sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
sys_kill has the per thread counterpart sys_tgkill. sigqueueinfo is missing a thread directed counterpart. Such an interface is important for migrating applications from other OSes which have the per thread delivery implemented. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 56d27acad87..f79b3b9f837 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2369,6 +2369,32 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo, pid_t, pid, int, sig,
return kill_proc_info(sig, &info, pid);
}
+long do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
+{
+ /* This is only valid for single tasks */
+ if (pid <= 0 || tgid <= 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
+ Nor can they impersonate a kill(), which adds source info. */
+ if (info->si_code >= 0)
+ return -EPERM;
+ info->si_signo = sig;
+
+ return do_send_specific(tgid, pid, sig, info);
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_tgsigqueueinfo, pid_t, tgid, pid_t, pid, int, sig,
+ siginfo_t __user *, uinfo)
+{
+ siginfo_t info;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&info, uinfo, sizeof(siginfo_t)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ return do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(tgid, pid, sig, &info);
+}
+
int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact)
{
struct task_struct *t = current;