Re: [patch V2 3/3] signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Mar 12 2021 - 11:13:37 EST


On 03/11, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> @@ -456,7 +460,12 @@ static void __sigqueue_free(struct sigqu
> return;
> if (atomic_dec_and_test(&q->user->sigpending))
> free_uid(q->user);
> - kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
> +
> + /* Cache one sigqueue per task */
> + if (!current->sigqueue_cache)
> + current->sigqueue_cache = q;
> + else
> + kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
> }

This doesn't look right, note that __exit_signal() does
flush_sigqueue(&sig->shared_pending) at the end, after exit_task_sighand()
was already called.

I'd suggest to not add the new exit_task_sighand() helper and simply free
current->sigqueue_cache at the end of __exit_signal().

Oleg.