Eric W. Biederman b16503baa8 signal: send_sig_all no longer needs SEND_SIG_FORCED ...

Now that send_signal always delivers SEND_SIG_PRIV signals to a pid
namespace init it is no longer necessary to use SEND_SIG_FORCED when
calling do_send_sig_info to ensure that pid namespace inits are
signaled and possibly killed.  Using SEND_SIG_PRIV is sufficient.

So use SEND_SIG_PRIV so that userspace when it receives a SIGTERM can
tell that the kernel sent the signal and not some random userspace
application.

Fixes: b82c32872d ("sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

2018-09-11 21:19:07 +02:00

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