signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of ->siglock
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:54:20 +0000 (19:54 +0200)
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:01:36 +0000 (13:01 +0200)
No functional changes, preparation to simplify the review of the next change.

1. We can read current->block lockless, nobody else can ever change this mask.

2. Calculate the resulting sigset_t outside of ->siglock into the temporary
   variable, then take ->siglock and change ->blocked.

Also, kill the stale comment about BKL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/signal.c

index 707736e64e0eaf339b6a8b096aea8c9d8469357a..e8308e3238c18986c0374ef6122cad87fccdb614 100644 (file)
@@ -2299,12 +2299,6 @@ long do_no_restart_syscall(struct restart_block *param)
        return -EINTR;
 }
 
-/*
- * We don't need to get the kernel lock - this is all local to this
- * particular thread.. (and that's good, because this is _heavily_
- * used by various programs)
- */
-
 /*
  * This is also useful for kernel threads that want to temporarily
  * (or permanently) block certain signals.
@@ -2315,30 +2309,33 @@ long do_no_restart_syscall(struct restart_block *param)
  */
 int sigprocmask(int how, sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset)
 {
-       int error;
+       struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+       sigset_t newset;
 
-       spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+       /* Lockless, only current can change ->blocked, never from irq */
        if (oldset)
-               *oldset = current->blocked;
+               *oldset = tsk->blocked;
 
-       error = 0;
        switch (how) {
        case SIG_BLOCK:
-               sigorsets(&current->blocked, &current->blocked, set);
+               sigorsets(&newset, &tsk->blocked, set);
                break;
        case SIG_UNBLOCK:
-               signandsets(&current->blocked, &current->blocked, set);
+               signandsets(&newset, &tsk->blocked, set);
                break;
        case SIG_SETMASK:
-               current->blocked = *set;
+               newset = *set;
                break;
        default:
-               error = -EINVAL;
+               return -EINVAL;
        }
+
+       spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+       tsk->blocked = newset;
        recalc_sigpending();
-       spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+       spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
 
-       return error;
+       return 0;
 }
 
 /**