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Eric W. Biederman 91ca180dbd signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current
In preparation for removing the task parameter from force_sig_fault
introduce force_sig_fault_to_task and use it for the two cases where
it matters.

On mips force_fcr31_sig calls force_sig_fault and is called on either
the current task, or a task that is suspended and is being switched to
by the scheduler.  This is safe because the task being switched to by
the scheduler is guaranteed to be suspended.  This ensures that
task->sighand is stable while the signal is delivered to it.

On parisc user_enable_single_step calls force_sig_fault and is in turn
called by ptrace_request.  The function ptrace_request always calls
user_enable_single_step on a child that is stopped for tracing.  The
child being traced and not reaped ensures that child->sighand is not
NULL, and that the child will not change child->sighand.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2019-05-29 09:31:43 -05:00
Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-05-19 12:15:32 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current 2019-05-29 09:31:43 -05:00
block for-5.2/block-post-20190516 2019-05-16 19:08:15 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-05-07 22:03:58 -07:00
drivers signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig 2019-05-27 09:36:28 -05:00
fs signal: Remove task parameter from force_sigsegv 2019-05-27 09:36:28 -05:00
include signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current 2019-05-29 09:31:43 -05:00
init initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd 2019-05-18 15:52:26 -07:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel signal: Use force_sig_fault_to_task for the two calls that don't deliver to current 2019-05-29 09:31:43 -05:00
lib slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
mm signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig_mceerr 2019-05-27 09:36:28 -05:00
net signal/bpfilter: Fix bpfilter_kernl to use send_sig not force_sig 2019-05-27 09:36:28 -05:00
samples samples: guard sub-directories with CONFIG options 2019-05-18 11:29:01 +09:00
scripts kconfig: use 'else ifneq' for Makefile to improve readability 2019-05-19 09:34:35 +09:00
security signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig 2019-05-27 09:36:28 -05:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-17 13:57:54 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:20:22 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Kbuild updates for v5.2 (2nd) 2019-05-19 11:53:58 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.2-rc1 2019-05-19 15:47:09 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.