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author | Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> | 2012-04-05 14:25:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-04-05 15:25:50 -0700 |
commit | b82c32872db20667d6ee8e2ea1e7bdec791bdcc7 (patch) | |
tree | 6677f42c6bc4f6efb07c862c558840c1114610fc /fs | |
parent | 99663be772c827b8f5f594fe87eb4807be1994e5 (diff) |
sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
Change send_sig_all() to use do_send_sig_info(SEND_SIG_FORCED) instead
of force_sig(SIGKILL). With the recent changes we do not need force_ to
kill the CLONE_NEWPID tasks.
And this is more correct. force_sig() can race with the exiting thread,
while do_send_sig_info(group => true) kill the whole process.
Some more notes from Oleg Nesterov:
> Just one note. This change makes no difference for sysrq_handle_kill().
> But it obviously changes the behaviour sysrq_handle_term(). I think
> this is fine, if you want to really kill the task which blocks/ignores
> SIGTERM you can use sysrq_handle_kill().
>
> Even ignoring the reasons why force_sig() is simply wrong here,
> force_sig(SIGTERM) looks strange. The task won't be killed if it has
> a handler, but SIG_IGN can't help. However if it has the handler
> but blocks SIGTERM temporary (this is very common) it will be killed.
Also,
> force_sig() can't kill the process if the main thread has already
> exited. IOW, it is trivial to create the process which can't be
> killed by sysrq.
So, this patch fixes the issue.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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