[PATCH 4/4] signal: Only handle on NSIG signals on signal functions (BZ #25657)
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue Apr 21 12:53:31 GMT 2020
* Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha:
> The upper bits of the sigset_t s not fully initialized in the signal
> mask calls that return information from kernel (sigprocmask,
> sigpending, and pthread_sigmask), since the exported sigset_t size
> (1024 bits) is larger than Linux support one (64 or 128 bits).
> It might make sigisemptyset/sigorset/sigandset fail if the mask
> is filled prior the call.
>
> This patch changes the internal signal function to handle up to
> supported Linux signal number (_NSIG), the remaining bits are
> untouched.
Sorry, I have trouble what the intended outcome of this change is.
What is the expected behavior here? We have an overly large sigset_t,
but only signal numbers from 0 to NSIG - 1 (inclusive) are valid in
all function calls?
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