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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@hera.kernel.org>2005-05-27 01:16:24 -0700
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@melbourne.sgi.com>2005-05-27 01:16:24 -0700
commitb19312c4c8f3f84da57bba01d45549df1cf10dcd (patch)
tree1c34ce89be6b4e257bc03026d0268deb17727044 /kernel/signal.c
parentd3870398fafd4911bd84573b78be4b6b762f32b0 (diff)
parent4ec5240ec367a592834385893200dd4fb369354c (diff)
Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8f3debc77c5b..b3c24c732c5a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -522,7 +522,16 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask,
{
int sig = 0;
- sig = next_signal(pending, mask);
+ /* SIGKILL must have priority, otherwise it is quite easy
+ * to create an unkillable process, sending sig < SIGKILL
+ * to self */
+ if (unlikely(sigismember(&pending->signal, SIGKILL))) {
+ if (!sigismember(mask, SIGKILL))
+ sig = SIGKILL;
+ }
+
+ if (likely(!sig))
+ sig = next_signal(pending, mask);
if (sig) {
if (current->notifier) {
if (sigismember(current->notifier_mask, sig)) {