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signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself
The idea is simple. We need to get the siginfo for each signal on checkpointing dump, and then return it back on restore. The first problem is that the kernel doesn't report complete siginfos to userspace. In a signal handler the kernel strips SI_CODE from siginfo. When a siginfo is received from signalfd, it has a different format with fixed sizes of fields. The interface of signalfd was extended. If a signalfd is created with the flag SFD_RAW, it returns siginfo in a raw format. rt_sigqueueinfo looks suitable for restoring signals, but it can't send siginfo with a positive si_code, because these codes are reserved for the kernel. In the real world each person has right to do anything with himself, so I think a process should able to send any siginfo to itself. This patch: The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because these codes are reserved for kernel. I think we can allow a task to send such a siginfo to itself. This operation should not be dangerous. This functionality is required for restoring signals in checkpoint/restart. Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]> Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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