signalfd: fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reporting
authorDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:29:29 +0000 (21:29 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:06:44 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
Michael Kerrisk found out that signalfd was not reporting back user data
pushed using sigqueue:

  http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/9397cab8551e3123

The following patch makes signalfd report back the ssi_ptr and ssi_int members
of the signalfd_siginfo structure.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/signalfd.c

index cb2b63ae0bf40adc55ccde41d753e04097e1ddab..8ead0db359339ca7f5986e3b89ff3b245938557e 100644 (file)
@@ -111,9 +111,14 @@ static int signalfd_copyinfo(struct signalfd_siginfo __user *uinfo,
                err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_uid, &uinfo->ssi_uid);
                err |= __put_user((long) kinfo->si_ptr, &uinfo->ssi_ptr);
                break;
-       default: /* this is just in case for now ... */
+       default:
+               /*
+                * This case catches also the signals queued by sigqueue().
+                */
                err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_pid, &uinfo->ssi_pid);
                err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_uid, &uinfo->ssi_uid);
+               err |= __put_user((long) kinfo->si_ptr, &uinfo->ssi_ptr);
+               err |= __put_user(kinfo->si_int, &uinfo->ssi_int);
                break;
        }