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signals: send_signal: be paranoid about signalfd_notify()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:53:00 +0000 (00:53 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:36 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
send_signal() shouldn't call signalfd_notify() if it then fails with -EAGAIN.
Harmless, just a paranoid cleanup.

Also remove the comment.  It is obsolete, signalfd_notify() was simplified and
does a simple wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/signal.c

index 8423867f7d8f0c3b1eb8be57657a55d0c0a1612f..251cc13720bdebdf6fc723bf5f2313f934b53fb1 100644 (file)
@@ -772,13 +772,6 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
         */
        if (legacy_queue(pending, sig))
                return 0;
-
-       /*
-        * Deliver the signal to listening signalfds. This must be called
-        * with the sighand lock held.
-        */
-       signalfd_notify(t, sig);
-
        /*
         * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP
         * or SIGKILL.
@@ -828,6 +821,7 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
        }
 
 out_set:
+       signalfd_notify(t, sig);
        sigaddset(&pending->signal, sig);
        complete_signal(sig, t, group);
        return 0;