[PATCH] do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 11:59:26 EST


do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.

I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

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

--- t/kernel/signal.c~SA_NOPEND 2007-08-20 19:40:31.000000000 +0400
+++ t/kernel/signal.c 2007-08-20 19:43:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -2300,15 +2300,6 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigac
k = &current->sighand->action[sig-1];

spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
- if (signal_pending(current)) {
- /*
- * If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
- * threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.
- */
- spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
- return -ERESTARTNOINTR;
- }
-
if (oact)
*oact = *k;


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