[LTP] [PATCH] Add regression test for CVE-2017-17053

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Fri Feb 9 17:08:42 CET 2018


Hi!
> > SAFE_SIGNAL(SIGSEGV, handler) as well?
> I thought about it, but that would use signal(). Using signal should in
> general be avoided in a multithreaded programm (see man signal). 

Ah, you are right, we have to use sigaction() anyways.

I do not think that anything bad will happen if we use signal() before
we start the threads though.

And we may as well add SAFE_SIGACTION() to the test library.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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