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linux/ipc
Sukadev Bhattiprolu a6684999f7 mqueue: fix si_pid value in mqueue do_notify()
If a process registers for asynchronous notification on a POSIX message
queue, it gets a signal and a siginfo_t structure when a message arrives
on the message queue.  The si_pid in the siginfo_t structure is set to the
PID of the process that sent the message to the message queue.

The principle is the following:
. when mq_notify(SIGEV_SIGNAL) is called, the caller registers for
  notification when a msg arrives. The associated pid structure is stroed into
  inode_info->notify_owner. Let's call this process P1.
. when mq_send() is called by say P2, P2 sends a signal to P1 to notify
  him about msg arrival.

The way .si_pid is set today is not correct, since it doesn't take into account
the fact that the process that is sending the message might not be in the
same namespace as the notified one.

This patch proposes to set si_pid to the sender's pid into the notify_owner
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00
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compat_mq.c
compat.c fix logic error in ipc compat semctl() 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: move the definition of ipc_auto_callback() 2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
ipcns_notifier.c ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing 2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Makefile ipc: recompute msgmni on ipc namespace creation/removal 2008-04-29 08:06:12 -07:00
mqueue.c mqueue: fix si_pid value in mqueue do_notify() 2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00
msg.c ipc: only output msgmni value at boot time 2008-06-06 11:29:12 -07:00
msgutil.c [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
namespace.c ipc: recompute msgmni on ipc namespace creation/removal 2008-04-29 08:06:12 -07:00
sem.c ipc: do not goto to the next line 2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
shm.c ipc: clean up ipc/shm.c 2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
util.c sanitize audit_ipc_set_perm() 2009-01-04 15:14:40 -05:00
util.h ipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down() 2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00