From c775ea28d4e23f5e58b6953645ef90c1b27a8e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:42:04 +0200 Subject: signal: Allow POSIX timer signals to be dropped In case that a timer was reprogrammed or deleted an already pending signal is obsolete. Right now such signals are kept around and eventually delivered. While POSIX 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." it is reasonable in both cases to expect that pending signals are discarded as they have no meaning anymore. Prepare the signal code to allow dropping posix timer signals. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.494416923@linutronix.de --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 05af074285fa..dd0b1dff54d9 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static void common_hrtimer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timr) * info::si_sys_private is not zero, which indicates that the timer has to * be rearmed. Restart the timer and update info::si_overrun. */ -void posixtimer_rearm(struct kernel_siginfo *info) +bool posixtimer_deliver_signal(struct kernel_siginfo *info) { struct k_itimer *timr; unsigned long flags; @@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ out: /* Don't expose the si_sys_private value to userspace */ info->si_sys_private = 0; + return true; } int posix_timer_queue_signal(struct k_itimer *timr) -- cgit v1.2.3