Re: [PATCH 0/3] signal: kill the obsolete SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Nov 06 2015 - 08:36:28 EST


On 11/05, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:17:20 +0100 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 11/05, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > Cough... and on the second thought this patch needs v2. Sorry Andrew, please
> > > drop signal-kill-the-obsolete-signal_unkillable-check-in-complete_signal.patch
> > > I'll send the updated version.
> > >
> > > With this patch the parent namespace can use any fatal signal (not only SIGKILL)
> > > to kill the init process in container. I do not think this is actually bad, but
> > > in any case this should not silently come as a side effect. And this is not
> > > consistent with SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE/sig_kernel_only() check in get_signal().
> > >
> > > Most probably I will just resend this patch as 2/2, while 1/2 will change
> > > sig_task_ignored() because afaics it is not actually right too (albeit not
> > > really buggy).
> >
> > So this replaces
> > signal-kill-the-obsolete-signal_unkillable-check-in-complete_signal.patch
> > 2/3 is actually the same change, just the changelog was updated.
>
> It's awfully late. Do you see any reason why we should jam this into 4.4?

No, I think this can wait till 4.5.

Oleg.

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