On Sun, 2026-07-05 at 20:48 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/05, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> > 
> > > SEND_SIG_NOINFO is defined as ((struct kernel_siginfo *) 0), so passing
> > > NULL works, but:
> > > 
> > > - this works "by accident" and looks as if the caller doesn't understand
> > >   the signal sending API.
> > > 
> > > - more importantly, this hides the usage of SEND_SIG_NOINFO from grep,
> > >   and this is really bad.
> > - also drop the now redundant (void)
> 
> Yes, but the "void" cast was never necessary, I guess.
> 
> and just in case... To me the usage of SEND_SIG_NOINFO here doesn't look 
> right with
> or without this change. Perhaps I am wrong, but please lets not discuss this 
> right
> now, this connects to other cleanups I have in mind.
> 

Yes, I agree. Perhaps SEND_SIG_PRIV would be more appropriate here.

> The purpose of this change is to make aa_audit() grep-friendly wrt 
> SEND_SIG_NOINFO.
> And because send_sig_info(NULL) looks "just wrong" to me, no matter what.
> 
> > Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > Also, feel free to CC me in signal patches, so I can review, from you
> > or from others.
> 
> OK, will do.
> 
> Oleg.
> 


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