Re: signalfd() not handling sigqueue() sigval data correctly

[Davide Libenzi]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Davide,
> >
> > > > I was doing some playing about with signalfd(), and seem to have encountered a
> > > > bug: when a signalfd read() fetches data for a signal that was sent by
> > > > sigqueue(), the data accompanying the signal is not returned.  Instead
> > > > ssi_int/ssi_ptr is zero.
> > >
> > > Michael, can you give the patch below a spin? I tested it on my x86_64 box
> > > and seems to be working fine:
> > >
> > > Got signal 44
> > >   ssi_code= -1
> > >   ssi_pid = 6314
> > >   ssi_uid = 1000
> > >   ssi_int = 123
> > >   ssi_ptr = 7b
> >
> > This works for me on x86-32.  Thanks Davide!
> 
> Davide,
> 
> Are you going to get this pushed into 2.6.26?  I assume we can't get
> it into 2.6.25...

I'll be sending it Andrew-bound today. I dunno where it'll land mainline.


- Davide


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