From: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:47:06 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Better documentation for ERESTARTSYS
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc4~27
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62e5b05db6cd5dd9cf9614cc5d2d0702c1e339bb;p=linux-2.6

Better documentation for ERESTARTSYS

Add comment for errnos related to restart syscall to avoid the leakage of
them to user programs.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/errno.h b/include/linux/errno.h
index d90b80f9b2..46685832ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/errno.h
+++ b/include/linux/errno.h
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-/* Should never be seen by user programs */
+/*
+ * These should never be seen by user programs.  To return one of ERESTART*
+ * codes, signal_pending() MUST be set.  Note that ptrace can observe these
+ * at syscall exit tracing, but they will never be left for the debugged user
+ * process to see.
+ */
 #define ERESTARTSYS	512
 #define ERESTARTNOINTR	513
 #define ERESTARTNOHAND	514	/* restart if no handler.. */