Re: siginfo pid not populated from ptrace?

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 12/06, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -1056,11 +1056,14 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct task_struc
>  		goto ret;
>  
>  	result = TRACE_SIGNAL_DELIVERED;
> +
>  	/*
> -	 * Skip useless siginfo allocation for SIGKILL SIGSTOP,
> -	 * and kernel threads.
> +	 * Skip useless siginfo allocation for SIGKILL and kernel threads.
> +	 * SIGSTOP is visible to tracers, so only skip allocation when the task
> +	 * is not traced.
>  	 */
> -	if (sig_kernel_only(sig) || (t->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
> +	if ((sig == SIGKILL) || (!task_is_traced(t) && sig == SIGSTOP) ||
			          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

task_is_traced() checks task->state, probably you meant t->ptrace != 0.

However, in multithreaded case t->ptrace won't help too, unless the signal
is private you do not know which thread will actually dequeue this signal
and possibly report to debugger.

Oleg.