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SubjectRe: possible kernel bug in signal transit.
Alex Lyashkov <shadow@psoft.net> wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> I analyze kernel vanila 2.6.4 and found one possible bug in
> __kill_pg_info function.
>
> for_each_task_pid(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p, l, pid) {
> err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
> if (retval)
> retval = err;
> }
> but I think if (retval) is incorrect check. possible this cycle must be
> for_each_task_pid(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p, l, pid) {
> err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
> if (ret) {
> retval = err;
> break;
> }
> }
> because in original variant me assign to retval only first value from
> ret and other be ignored if this value be 0.
>

No, the code's OK, albeit undesirably obscure. It will return -ESRCH if
none of the tasks had a matching pgrp and will return the result of the
final non-zero-returning group_send_sig_info() if one or more of the
group_send_sig_info() calls failed, and will return zero if all of the
group_send_sig_info() calls returned zero.

Thanks for checking though..
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