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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-12-15 16:47:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 07:20:08 -0800
commit614c517d7c00af1b26ded20646b329397d6f51a1 (patch)
treeddd7a82b3479c9fabe141b4c82a1794650a82b4f /include/linux
parentd51965037325e51f6cd68583413243c3573e47b0 (diff)
signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()
No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser() and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper. The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal() has another opinion - see the next patch. The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad imho. From __send_signal()'s pov they mean SEND_SIG_NOINFO from user SEND_SIG_PRIV from kernel SEND_SIG_FORCED no info Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index f4c145410a8..57b3516f055 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2102,11 +2102,6 @@ static inline int kill_cad_pid(int sig, int priv)
#define SEND_SIG_PRIV ((struct siginfo *) 1)
#define SEND_SIG_FORCED ((struct siginfo *) 2)
-static inline int is_si_special(const struct siginfo *info)
-{
- return info <= SEND_SIG_FORCED;
-}
-
/*
* True if we are on the alternate signal stack.
*/