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| author | Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> | 2019-10-14 13:45:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> | 2019-10-21 22:46:47 +0300 |
| commit | b612e5df4587c934bd056bf05f4a1deca4de4f75 (patch) | |
| tree | 6af3bde8580cdc0188fc73737cf46f9d2e05ba3d /include/uapi/linux/sched.h | |
| parent | 1e1d0f0b1a3e3533ea4cd4021eb251e53827c70b (diff) | |
| download | linux-b612e5df4587c934bd056bf05f4a1deca4de4f75.tar.xz | |
clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND
Reset all signal handlers of the child not set to SIG_IGN to SIG_DFL.
Mutually exclusive with CLONE_SIGHAND to not disturb other thread's
signal handler.
In the spirit of closer cooperation between glibc developers and kernel
developers (cf. [2]) this patchset came out of a discussion on the glibc
mailing list for improving posix_spawn() (cf. [1], [3], [4]). Kernel
support for this feature has been explicitly requested by glibc and I
see no reason not to help them with this.
The child helper process on Linux posix_spawn must ensure that no signal
handlers are enabled, so the signal disposition must be either SIG_DFL
or SIG_IGN. However, it requires a sigprocmask to obtain the current
signal mask and at least _NSIG sigaction calls to reset the signal
handlers for each posix_spawn call or complex state tracking that might
lead to data corruption in glibc. Adding this flags lets glibc avoid
these problems.
[1]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00149.html
[3]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00158.html
[4]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00160.html
[2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/799331/
'[...] by asking for better cooperation with the C-library projects
in general. They should be copied on patches containing ABI
changes, for example. I noted that there are often times where
C-library developers wish the kernel community had done things
differently; how could those be avoided in the future? Members of
the audience suggested that more glibc developers should perhaps
join the linux-api list. The other suggestion was to "copy Florian
on everything".'
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191014104538.3096-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h index 99335e1f4a27..1d500ed03c63 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ #define CLONE_NEWNET 0x40000000 /* New network namespace */ #define CLONE_IO 0x80000000 /* Clone io context */ +/* Flags for the clone3() syscall. */ +#define CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND 0x100000000ULL /* Clear any signal handler and reset to SIG_DFL. */ + #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ /** * struct clone_args - arguments for the clone3 syscall |