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author <jgarzik@pretzel.yyz.us>2005-05-27 22:08:07 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>2005-05-27 22:08:07 -0400
commit51a730d758ae4052e10ca7e06336f10af598c4fc (patch)
treeb76a004c00cd7139659be515ee03398e47067290 /kernel/signal.c
parent6cd15a9daf826115356f9403494c76e5aafa7793 (diff)
parentff0e0ea2f5d36fa90fc2c57fd019102b0a0cfabf (diff)
Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch we18-ieee80211
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8f3debc77c5b..b3c24c732c5a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -522,7 +522,16 @@ static int __dequeue_signal(struct sigpending *pending, sigset_t *mask,
{
int sig = 0;
- sig = next_signal(pending, mask);
+ /* SIGKILL must have priority, otherwise it is quite easy
+ * to create an unkillable process, sending sig < SIGKILL
+ * to self */
+ if (unlikely(sigismember(&pending->signal, SIGKILL))) {
+ if (!sigismember(mask, SIGKILL))
+ sig = SIGKILL;
+ }
+
+ if (likely(!sig))
+ sig = next_signal(pending, mask);
if (sig) {
if (current->notifier) {
if (sigismember(current->notifier_mask, sig)) {