[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 32/78] kernel/signal.c: unexport sigsuspend()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Dec 17 00:39:16 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt32 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>

commit 9d8a765211335cfdad464b90fb19f546af5706ae upstream.

sigsuspend() is nowhere used except in signal.c itself, so we can mark it
static do not pollute the global namespace.

But this patch is more than a boring cleanup patch, it fixes a real issue
on UserModeLinux.  UML has a special console driver to display ttys using
xterm, or other terminal emulators, on the host side.  Vegard reported
that sometimes UML is unable to spawn a xterm and he's facing the
following warning:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 908 at include/linux/thread_info.h:128 sigsuspend+0xab/0xc0()

It turned out that this warning makes absolutely no sense as the UML
xterm code calls sigsuspend() on the host side, at least it tries.  But
as the kernel itself offers a sigsuspend() symbol the linker choose this
one instead of the glibc wrapper.  Interestingly this code used to work
since ever but always blocked signals on the wrong side.  Some recent
kernel change made the WARN_ON() trigger and uncovered the bug.

It is a wonderful example of how much works by chance on computers. :-)

Fixes: 68f3f16d9ad0f1 ("new helper: sigsuspend()")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/signal.h | 1 -
 kernel/signal.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 2ac423b..53944e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@ extern int sigprocmask(int, sigset_t *, sigset_t *);
 extern void set_current_blocked(sigset_t *);
 extern void __set_current_blocked(const sigset_t *);
 extern int show_unhandled_signals;
-extern int sigsuspend(sigset_t *);
 
 struct sigaction {
 #ifndef __ARCH_HAS_IRIX_SIGACTION
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 940b30e..9864d04 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3550,7 +3550,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(pause)
 
 #endif
 
-int sigsuspend(sigset_t *set)
+static int sigsuspend(sigset_t *set)
 {
 	current->saved_sigmask = current->blocked;
 	set_current_blocked(set);
-- 
1.9.1





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