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SEND_SIG_NOINFO: set si_pid to tgid instead of pid 

POSIX requires the si_pid to be the process id of the sender, so ->si_pid
should really be set to 'tgid'.  This change does have following changes
in behavior:

	- When sending pdeath_signal on re-parent to a sub-thread, ->si_pid
	  cannot be used to identify the thread that did the re-parent since
	  it will now show the tgid instead of thread id.

	- A multi-threaded application that expects to find the specific
	  thread that encountered a SIGPIPE using the ->si_pid will now
	  break.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
wifi-calibration
Sukadev Bhattiprolu 2009-01-06 14:42:46 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 09bca05c90
commit 9cd4fd1043
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
q->info.si_signo = sig;
q->info.si_errno = 0;
q->info.si_code = SI_USER;
q->info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current,
q->info.si_pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current,
task_active_pid_ns(t));
q->info.si_uid = current_uid();
break;