Virtualization - May 2023 - [RFC PATCH 1/8] signal: Dequeue SIGKILL even if SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/group_exec_task is set

I too do not understand the 1st change in this patch ...

On 05/18, Mike Christie wrote:
>
> In the other patches we do:
>
> if (get_signal(ksig))
> 	start_exit_cleanup_by_stopping_newIO()
> 	flush running IO()
> 	exit()
>
> But to do the flush running IO() part of this I need to wait for it so
> that's why I wanted to be able to dequeue the SIGKILL and clear the
> TIF_SIGPENDING bit.
But get_signal() will do what you need, dequeue SIGKILL and clear SIGPENDING ?

	if ((signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) ||
	     signal->group_exec_task) {
		clear_siginfo(&ksig->info);
		ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL;
		sigdelset(&current->pending.signal, SIGKILL);

this "dequeues" SIGKILL,

		trace_signal_deliver(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_NOINFO,
			&sighand->action[SIGKILL - 1]);
		recalc_sigpending();

this clears TIF_SIGPENDING.
> Or I don't need this specifically. In patch 0/8 I said I knew you guys
> would not like it :) If I just have a:
>
> if (fatal_signal())
> 	clear_fatal_signal()
see above...


Well... I think this code is actually wrong if if SIGSTOP is pending and
the task is PF_IO_WORKER, but this is also true for io-threads so we can
discuss this separately.

Oleg.

On 5/18/23 11:25 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> I too do not understand the 1st change in this patch ...
> 
> On 05/18, Mike Christie wrote:
>>
>> In the other patches we do:
>>
>> if (get_signal(ksig))
>> 	start_exit_cleanup_by_stopping_newIO()
>> 	flush running IO()
>> 	exit()
>>
>> But to do the flush running IO() part of this I need to wait for it so
>> that's why I wanted to be able to dequeue the SIGKILL and clear the
>> TIF_SIGPENDING bit.
> 
> But get_signal() will do what you need, dequeue SIGKILL and clear
SIGPENDING ?
> 
> 	if ((signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) ||
> 	     signal->group_exec_task) {
> 		clear_siginfo(&ksig->info);
> 		ksig->info.si_signo = signr = SIGKILL;
> 		sigdelset(&current->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
> 
> this "dequeues" SIGKILL,
> 
> 		trace_signal_deliver(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_NOINFO,
> 			&sighand->action[SIGKILL - 1]);
> 		recalc_sigpending();
> 
> this clears TIF_SIGPENDING.
> 
I see what you guys meant. TIF_SIGPENDING isn't getting cleared.
I'll dig into why.