Bug 1829031
| Summary: | Update execve(2) manpage text upon late failure | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Renaud Métrich <rmetrich> |
| Component: | man-pages-overrides | Assignee: | Nikola Forró <nforro> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | David Jež <djez> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.1 | CC: | djez |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ManPageChange |
| Target Release: | 8.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | man-pages-overrides-8.3.0.0-1.el8 | Doc Type: | No Doc Update |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-11-04 02:52:30 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 1829805 | ||
Proposed upstream patch: https://marc.info/?l=linux-man&m=158817422710181&w=2 Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (man-pages-overrides bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4675 |
Description of problem: The current text is shown below: In most cases where execve() fails, control returns to the original executable image, and the caller of execve() can then handle the error. However, in (rare) cases (typically caused by resource exhaustion), failure may occur past the point of no return: the original executable image has been torn down, but the new image could not be completely built. In such cases, the kernel kills the process with a SIGKILL signal. This is not true anymore, process is killed with SIGSEGV signal, not SIGKILL since integration of the following commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/19d860a140beac48a1377f179e693abe86a9dac9 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All versions Additional info: See also BZ #1828825