From cbaffba12ce08beb3e80bfda148ee0fa14aac188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:55:42 +0400 Subject: posix timers: discard SI_TIMER signals on exec Based on Roland's patch. This approach was suggested by Austin Clements from the very beginning, and then by Linus. As Austin pointed out, the execing task can be killed by SI_TIMER signal because exec flushes the signal handlers, but doesn't discard the pending signals generated by posix timers. Perhaps not a bug, but people find this surprising. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10460 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Austin Clements Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 3c2ba7ce11d..9448f1b50b4 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -860,6 +860,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) no_thread_group: exit_itimers(sig); + flush_itimer_signals(); if (leader) release_task(leader); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258