Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:37:23 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/20] exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure |
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Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:44:00PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Use force_fatal_sig instead of calling do_exit directly. This ensures >> the ordinary signal handling path gets invoked, core dumps as >> appropriate get created, and for multi-threaded processes all of the >> threads are terminated not just a single thread. > > Yeah, looks good. Should be no visible behavior change.
It is observable in that an entire multi-threaded process gets terminated instead of a single thread. But since these events should be handling of extra-ordinary events I don't expect there is anyone who wants to have a thread of their process survive.
Eric
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