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authorBodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>2005-09-03 15:57:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>2005-09-05 00:06:21 -0700
commited1b58d8b53519e10a35c6a2bb49cac35f439621 (patch)
tree30eacf51f9e7d11fcfe2c795e3da48e1e7363daf /arch
parent0221575903ad68debea57679b5b46575bf57afb1 (diff)
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[PATCH] uml: fix SIGWINCH handler race while waiting for signals.
If a SIGWINCH comes in, while winch_thread() isn't waiting in wait(), winch_thread could miss signals. It isn't very probable, that anyone will see this causing trouble, as it would need a very special timing, that a missed SIGWINCH results in a wrong window size. So, this is a minor problem. But why not fix, as it can be done so easy? Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c b/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
index 5d3768156c92..de3bce71aeb3 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ error:
*
* SIGWINCH can't be received synchronously, so you have to set up to receive it
* as a signal. That being the case, if you are going to wait for it, it is
- * convenient to sit in a pause() and wait for the signal to bounce you out of
+ * convenient to sit in sigsuspend() and wait for the signal to bounce you out of
* it (see below for how we make sure to exit only on SIGWINCH).
*/
@@ -94,18 +94,19 @@ static int winch_thread(void *arg)
"byte, err = %d\n", -count);
/* We are not using SIG_IGN on purpose, so don't fix it as I thought to
- * do! If using SIG_IGN, the pause() call below would not stop on
+ * do! If using SIG_IGN, the sigsuspend() call below would not stop on
* SIGWINCH. */
signal(SIGWINCH, winch_handler);
sigfillset(&sigs);
- sigdelset(&sigs, SIGWINCH);
- /* Block anything else than SIGWINCH. */
+ /* Block all signals possible. */
if(sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigs, NULL) < 0){
printk("winch_thread : sigprocmask failed, errno = %d\n",
errno);
exit(1);
}
+ /* In sigsuspend(), block anything else than SIGWINCH. */
+ sigdelset(&sigs, SIGWINCH);
if(setsid() < 0){
printk("winch_thread : setsid failed, errno = %d\n", errno);
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ static int winch_thread(void *arg)
while(1){
/* This will be interrupted by SIGWINCH only, since other signals
* are blocked.*/
- pause();
+ sigsuspend(&sigs);
count = os_write_file(pipe_fd, &c, sizeof(c));
if(count != sizeof(c))