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Thomas Gleixner 513793bc6a posix-timers: Make signal delivery consistent
Signals of timers which are reprogammed, disarmed or deleted can deliver
signals related to the past. The POSIX spec is blury about this:

 - "The effect of disarming or resetting a timer with pending expiration
    notifications is unspecified."

 - "The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is
    unspecified."

In both cases it is reasonable to expect that pending signals are
discarded. Especially in the reprogramming case it does not make sense to
account for previous overruns or to deliver a signal for a timer which has
been disarmed. This makes the behaviour consistent and understandable.

Remove the si_sys_private check from the signal delivery code and invoke
posix_timer_deliver_signal() unconditionally for posix timer related
signals.

Change posix_timer_deliver_signal() so it controls the actual signal
delivery via the return value. It now instructs the signal code to drop the
signal when:

  1) The timer does not longer exist in the hash table

  2) The timer signal_seq value is not the same as the si_sys_private value
     which was set when the signal was queued.

This is also a preparatory change to embed the sigqueue into the k_itimer
structure, which in turn allows to remove the si_sys_private magic.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.040348644@linutronix.de
2024-11-07 02:14:43 +01:00
arch timekeeping: Always check for negative motion 2024-11-02 10:14:31 +01:00
block for-6.12/block-20240925 2024-09-25 14:56:40 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto KEYS: prevent NULL pointer dereference in find_asymmetric_key() 2024-09-20 19:49:49 +03:00
Documentation timers/Documentation: Cleanup delay/sleep documentation 2024-10-16 00:36:48 +02:00
drivers clocksource/drivers/timer-tegra: Remove clockevents shutdown call on offlining 2024-10-31 10:41:43 +01:00
fs bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc1 2024-09-29 09:17:44 -07:00
include posix-timers: Make signal delivery consistent 2024-11-07 02:14:43 +01:00
init Rust changes for v6.12 2024-09-25 10:25:40 -07:00
io_uring for-6.12/io_uring-20240922 2024-09-24 11:11:38 -07:00
ipc struct fd layout change (and conversion to accessor helpers) 2024-09-23 09:35:36 -07:00
kernel posix-timers: Make signal delivery consistent 2024-11-07 02:14:43 +01:00
lib timekeeping: Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 2024-11-02 10:14:31 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/damon/core: Use generic upper bound recommondation for usleep_range() 2024-10-16 00:36:47 +02:00
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scripts checkpatch: Remove links to outdated documentation 2024-10-16 00:36:47 +02:00
security One bugfix patch, one preparation patch, and one conversion patch. 2024-09-27 12:03:48 -07:00
sound iopoll/regmap/phy/snd: Fix comment referencing outdated timer documentation 2024-10-16 00:36:47 +02:00
tools timekeeping: Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 2024-11-02 10:14:31 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS timers: Move *sleep*() and timeout functions into a separate file 2024-10-16 00:36:46 +02:00
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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 reStructuredText 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.