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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:24:04 -0600
From: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 08/12] signal, x86: add SIGSYS info and make it synchronous.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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.
I think that Roland covered this. (Since the syscall_rollback was
called it's nice to let our handler get first go.)
> But seccomp adds info->si_call_addr, this looks unneeded.
True enough. I can drop it. It'd only be useful if the SIGSYS wasn't
being forced and the signal was being handled without ucontext_t
access.
thanks!
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