From 43918f2bf4806675943416d539d9d5e4d585ebff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:00 -0700 Subject: signals: remove 'handler' parameter to tracehook functions Container-init must behave like global-init to processes within the container and hence it must be immune to unhandled fatal signals from within the container (i.e SIG_DFL signals that terminate the process). But the same container-init must behave like a normal process to processes in ancestor namespaces and so if it receives the same fatal signal from a process in ancestor namespace, the signal must be processed. Implementing these semantics requires that send_signal() determine pid namespace of the sender but since signals can originate from workqueues/ interrupt-handlers, determining pid namespace of sender may not always be possible or safe. This patchset implements the design/simplified semantics suggested by Oleg Nesterov. The simplified semantics for container-init are: - container-init must never be terminated by a signal from a descendant process. - container-init must never be immune to SIGKILL from an ancestor namespace (so a process in parent namespace must always be able to terminate a descendant container). - container-init may be immune to unhandled fatal signals (like SIGUSR1) even if they are from ancestor namespace. SIGKILL/SIGSTOP are the only reliable signals to a container-init from ancestor namespace. This patch: Based on an earlier patch submitted by Oleg Nesterov and comments from Roland McGrath (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/258). The handler parameter is currently unused in the tracehook functions. Besides, the tracehook functions are called with siglock held, so the functions can check the handler if they later need to. Removing the parameter simiplifies changes to sig_ignored() in a follow-on patch. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index 19378715f41..b7cc21bc6ae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1455,6 +1455,6 @@ asmregparm void syscall_trace_leave(struct pt_regs *regs) * system call instruction. */ if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP) && - tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(current, SIGTRAP, SIG_DFL)) + tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(current, SIGTRAP)) send_sigtrap(current, regs, 0, TRAP_BRKPT); } -- cgit v1.2.3