signalfd simplification
This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the
sighand during its lifetime.
In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during
poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2). This also allows to remove
all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since
dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current".
I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago.
The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own
private signals and the group ones. I think this is an acceptable
behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to
fetch w/out signalfd.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 06b24b3..993369e 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/profile.h>
-#include <linux/signalfd.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
@@ -86,14 +85,6 @@
sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
- /*
- * Notify that this sighand has been detached. This must
- * be called with the tsk->sighand lock held. Also, this
- * access tsk->sighand internally, so it must be called
- * before tsk->sighand is reset.
- */
- signalfd_detach_locked(tsk);
-
posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count))
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7332e23..33f12f4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@
struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;
spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sighand->signalfd_list);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&sighand->signalfd_wqh);
}
void __init proc_caches_init(void)
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 3169bed..9fb91a3 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -378,8 +378,7 @@
/* We only dequeue private signals from ourselves, we don't let
* signalfd steal them
*/
- if (likely(tsk == current))
- signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
+ signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->pending, mask, info);
if (!signr) {
signr = __dequeue_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
mask, info);
@@ -407,8 +406,7 @@
}
}
}
- if (likely(tsk == current))
- recalc_sigpending();
+ recalc_sigpending();
if (signr && unlikely(sig_kernel_stop(signr))) {
/*
* Set a marker that we have dequeued a stop signal. Our
@@ -425,7 +423,7 @@
if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT))
tsk->signal->flags |= SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED;
}
- if (signr && likely(tsk == current) &&
+ if (signr &&
((info->si_code & __SI_MASK) == __SI_TIMER) &&
info->si_sys_private){
/*