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Pull pidfd fix from Christian Brauner: "This should be an uncontroversial fix for pidfd_send_signal() by Jann to better align it's behavior with other signal sending functions: In one of the early versions of the patchset it was suggested to not unconditionally error out when a signal with SI_USER is sent to a non-current task (cf. [1]). Instead, pidfd_send_signal() currently silently changes this to a regular kill signal. While this is technically fine, the semantics are weird since the kernel just silently converts a user's request behind their back and also no other signal sending function allows to do this. It gets more hairy when we introduce sending signals to a specific thread soon. So let's align pidfd_send_signal() with all the other signal sending functions and error out when SI_USER signals are sent to a non-current task" * tag 'pidfd-fixes-v5.1-rc3' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: signal: don't silently convert SI_USER signals to non-current pidfd
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