Re: [RFC][CFT] signal handling fixes

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Sep 23 2021 - 10:45:26 EST


On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 7:18 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Back in 2012 or so I'd found a bunch of fun issues with multiple
> pending signals on a lot of architectures. m68k looked scarier than
> usual (due to the combination of variable-sized exception frames with the
> way kernel stack pointer is handled by the hardware), but I'd convinced
> myself that it had been correct.
>
> Unfortunately, I was wrong - handling of multiple pending signals
> does *not* work correctly there.

[...]

Thank you, queuing in the m68k branch as fixes.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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