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    signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself · 66dd34ad
    Andrey Vagin authored
    The idea is simple.  We need to get the siginfo for each signal on
    checkpointing dump, and then return it back on restore.
    
    The first problem is that the kernel doesn't report complete siginfos to
    userspace.  In a signal handler the kernel strips SI_CODE from siginfo.
    When a siginfo is received from signalfd, it has a different format with
    fixed sizes of fields.  The interface of signalfd was extended.  If a
    signalfd is created with the flag SFD_RAW, it returns siginfo in a raw
    format.
    
    rt_sigqueueinfo looks suitable for restoring signals, but it can't send
    siginfo with a positive si_code, because these codes are reserved for
    the kernel.  In the real world each person has right to do anything with
    himself, so I think a process should able to send any siginfo to itself.
    
    This patch:
    
    The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because
    these codes are reserved for kernel.  I think we can allow a task to
    send such a siginfo to itself.  This operation should not be dangerous.
    
    This functionality is required for restoring signals in
    checkpoint/restart.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
    Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
    Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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