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Commit 614c517d authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d5196503
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