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H A Dpid_namespace.cf9070dc9 Wed May 15 12:29:52 CDT 2019 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> signal/pid_namespace: Fix reboot_pid_ns to use send_sig not force_sig

The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that
exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem
in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous
exceptions.

Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the
signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the
delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can
not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being
delivered.

So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing
and pointless.

Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because
using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig.

Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: cf3f89214ef6 ("pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
f9070dc9 Wed May 15 12:29:52 CDT 2019 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> signal/pid_namespace: Fix reboot_pid_ns to use send_sig not force_sig

The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that
exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem
in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous
exceptions.

Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the
signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the
delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can
not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being
delivered.

So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing
and pointless.

Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because
using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig.

Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: cf3f89214ef6 ("pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>