[PATCH] implement unshare(CLONE_SIGHAND) for single-thread case

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 08:14:19 EST


on top of (already merged)
unshare-use-rcu_assign_pointer-when-setting-sighand.patch
depends on
convert-sighand_cache-to-use-slab_destroy_by_rcu.patch

Implement unshare(CLONE_SIGHAND) for single-thread case.

I think it is not possible to do it for multithread case without
complication of copy_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- MM/kernel/fork.c~ 2006-03-18 16:23:23.000000000 +0300
+++ MM/kernel/fork.c 2006-03-18 17:00:39.000000000 +0300
@@ -1483,18 +1483,24 @@ static int unshare_namespace(unsigned lo
}

/*
- * Unsharing of sighand for tasks created with CLONE_SIGHAND is not
- * supported yet
+ * Unsharing of sighand is only supported for single-thread applications
*/
static int unshare_sighand(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct sighand_struct **new_sighp)
{
- struct sighand_struct *sigh = current->sighand;
-
if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) &&
- (sigh && atomic_read(&sigh->count) > 1))
- return -EINVAL;
- else
- return 0;
+ atomic_read(&current->sighand->count) > 1) {
+
+ if (!thread_group_empty(current))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ *new_sighp = kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (unlikely(*new_sighp == NULL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ atomic_set(&(*new_sighp)->count, 1);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
}

/*
@@ -1579,7 +1585,18 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned lon
if ((err = unshare_semundo(unshare_flags, &new_ulist)))
goto bad_unshare_cleanup_fd;

- if (new_fs || new_ns || new_sigh || new_mm || new_fd || new_ulist) {
+ if (new_sigh) {
+ sigh = current->sighand;
+ write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+ spin_lock(&sigh->siglock);
+ memcpy(new_sigh->action, sigh->action, sizeof(sigh->action));
+ rcu_assign_pointer(current->sighand, new_sigh);
+ spin_unlock(&sigh->siglock);
+ write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+ new_sigh = sigh;
+ }
+
+ if (new_fs || new_ns || new_mm || new_fd || new_ulist) {

task_lock(current);

@@ -1595,12 +1612,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned lon
new_ns = ns;
}

- if (new_sigh) {
- sigh = current->sighand;
- rcu_assign_pointer(current->sighand, new_sigh);
- new_sigh = sigh;
- }
-
if (new_mm) {
mm = current->mm;
active_mm = current->active_mm;
-
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