[PATCH] signal: improve warning about using SI_TKILL in rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Thu Mar 19 2015 - 05:53:22 EST


Sending SI_TKILL from rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo was deprecated, so now we
issue a warning on the first attempt of doing it. We use WARN_ON_ONCE,
which is not informative and, what is worse, taints the kernel, making
the trinity syscall fuzzer complain false-positively from time to time.

This patch therefore substitutes the WARN_ON_ONCE with a pr_warn_once.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index a390499943e4..3cbcd94457af 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2993,8 +2993,11 @@ static int do_rt_sigqueueinfo(pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
*/
if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
(task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
- /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+ /* We used to allow SI_TKILL */
+ if (info->si_code == SI_TKILL)
+ pr_warn_once("%s (%d): Sending SI_TKILL from "
+ "rt_sigqueueinfo is deprecated\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid);
return -EPERM;
}
info->si_signo = sig;
@@ -3041,10 +3044,13 @@ static int do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, siginfo_t *info)
/* Not even root can pretend to send signals from the kernel.
* Nor can they impersonate a kill()/tgkill(), which adds source info.
*/
- if (((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL)) &&
+ if ((info->si_code >= 0 || info->si_code == SI_TKILL) &&
(task_pid_vnr(current) != pid)) {
- /* We used to allow any < 0 si_code */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(info->si_code < 0);
+ /* We used to allow SI_TKILL */
+ if (info->si_code == SI_TKILL)
+ pr_warn_once("%s (%d): Sending SI_TKILL from "
+ "rt_tgsigqueueinfo is deprecated\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid);
return -EPERM;
}
info->si_signo = sig;
--
1.7.10.4

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