From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:34:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240220-einwurf-depesche-d8682be0370c@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240216181214.GA10393@redhat.com>
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 07:12:14PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > > SI_USER means that the target can trust the values of si_pid/si_uid
> > > in siginfo.
> >
> > Bah, what an annoying nonsense. I see that this can be used to emulate
> > stuff like SI_TIMER and SI_ASYNCIO. But I very much doubt the value of
> > e.g., emulating SI_DETHREAD. Maybe I'm missing something very obvious.
>
> I don't understand...
My question was what the purpose of being able to to set si_code to
e.g., SI_DETHREAD is and then to send a signal to yourself? Because it
looks like that's what rt_{tg}sigqueueinfo() and pidfd_send_signal()
allows the caller to do. I'm just trying to understand use-cases for
this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-20 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-09 13:06 [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: add the "int si_code" arg to prepare_kill_siginfo() Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 13:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 15:11 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:15 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 15:49 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 15:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 10:23 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 12:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 12:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 12:54 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 14:26 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-10 16:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-10 17:22 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-14 12:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-16 12:28 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-16 13:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-16 14:46 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-16 18:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 8:34 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2024-02-20 9:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 9:22 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-20 11:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-20 12:59 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-20 16:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-21 7:42 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-21 12:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-21 13:35 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 19:08 ` Tycho Andersen
2024-02-09 15:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: add the "int si_code" arg to prepare_kill_siginfo() Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 16:13 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 16:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2024-02-09 16:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 19:36 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 19:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 20:01 ` Tycho Andersen
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