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SubjectRe: [PATCH] signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask()
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:41 PM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is the minimal fix for stable, I'll send cleanups later.
> >
> > The commit 854a6ed56839a40f6b5d02a2962f48841482eec4 ("signal: Add
> > restore_user_sigmask()") introduced the visible change which breaks
> > user-space: a signal temporary unblocked by set_user_sigmask() can
> > be delivered even if the caller returns success or timeout.
> >
> > Change restore_user_sigmask() to accept the additional "interrupted"
> > argument which should be used instead of signal_pending() check, and
> > update the callers.
> >
> > Reported-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
> > Fixes: 854a6ed56839a40f6b5d02a2962f48841482eec4 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()")
> > cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v5.0+)
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>

Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

The original fix posted:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1077355/ would also have been
a correct fix for this problem. But, given the cleanups that are in
the pipeline, this is a better fix.

-Deepa

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