Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-23 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/20, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:32:26 +0100 > Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > Andrew, could you take it? We will make more fixes on top. > > Did that, but the timing and somewhat tentative nature of the changes > makes me think "3.10-rc1". Oh, yes, I will sleep much better if

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:32:26 +0100 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 02/19, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote: > > > > For the whole series: > > > > Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines > > Oh, thanks a lot Mandeep. > > I tried to test it too, seems to work. > > Andrew, could you take it? We will make more fixes

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/19, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote: > > For the whole series: > > Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Oh, thanks a lot Mandeep. I tried to test it too, seems to work. Andrew, could you take it? We will make more fixes on top. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-19 Thread Mandeep Singh Baines
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Hello. > > These problems are really annoying. I reported and tried to fix > them in 2008 (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121665710711931) > but nobody was interested. > > Since then I had a lot of (to some degree contradictory) bug

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 02/17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > SIGKILL really is very very special. Having it kill a > > coredump in progress sounds fine to me. > > Great. Forgot to mention just in case... We could probably make a simpler patch. do_coredump() can ignore all signals ex

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > Linus, et al, could you please ack/nack the intent? Of course I will > > appreciate if you can review the code, but what I am actually worried > > about is the user-visible change: the coredumping be

Re: [PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Linus, et al, could you please ack/nack the intent? Of course I will > appreciate if you can review the code, but what I am actually worried > about is the user-visible change: the coredumping becomes killable but > only by the _explicit_

[PATCH 0/3] coredump: fix the ancient signal problems

2013-02-17 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Hello. These problems are really annoying. I reported and tried to fix them in 2008 (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121665710711931) but nobody was interested. Since then I had a lot of (to some degree contradictory) bug reports: we do not want the interrupted coredumps (this is what the