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Re: [PATCH] signal: Avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info

From Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] signal: Avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info
Date 2017-06-05 14:40 +0200
Message-ID <tOZsC-2TL-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 06/05, zhongjiang wrote:
>
>  static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
>  {
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret, vpid;
>  
>  	if (pid > 0) {
>  		rcu_read_lock();
> @@ -1395,8 +1395,12 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
>  
>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>  	if (pid != -1) {
> +		if (pid == INT_MIN)
> +			vpid = INT_MAX;

Well, this probably needs a comment to explain that this is just "avoid ub".

And if we really want the fix, to me

	if (pid == INT_MIN)
		return -ESRCH;

at the start makes more sense...

Oleg.

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[PATCH] signal: Avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> - 2017-06-05 11:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] signal: Avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-06-05 14:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] signal: Avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> - 2017-06-05 14:50 +0200

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