SEND_SIG_NOINFO: set si_pid to tgid instead of pid

POSIX requires the si_pid to be the process id of the sender, so ->si_pid
should really be set to 'tgid'.  This change does have following changes
in behavior:

	- When sending pdeath_signal on re-parent to a sub-thread, ->si_pid
	  cannot be used to identify the thread that did the re-parent since
	  it will now show the tgid instead of thread id.

	- A multi-threaded application that expects to find the specific
	  thread that encountered a SIGPIPE using the ->si_pid will now
	  break.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 31db63b..3152ac3 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
                        q->info.si_signo = sig;
                        q->info.si_errno = 0;
                        q->info.si_code = SI_USER;
-                       q->info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current,
+                       q->info.si_pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current,
                                                        task_active_pid_ns(t));
                        q->info.si_uid = current_uid();
                        break;