From 6b1167c61cb3e1e05b4b310fa9c9cddff93afa27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 19:55:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 86214 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r86214 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-11-05 20:47:27 +0100 (ven., 05 nov. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
  its low-level signal handler.  Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
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---
 Misc/ACKS              |  1 +
 Misc/NEWS              |  3 +++
 Modules/signalmodule.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index b1bf91ca31..28850b0873 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ Peter Funk
 Geoff Furnish
 Ulisses Furquim
 Hagen Fürstenau
+Hallvard B Furuseth
 Achim Gaedke
 Martin von Gagern
 Lele Gaifax
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a667fa3398..698c971414 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
+  its low-level signal handler.  Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
+
 - Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
   from Python 2.6).  Patch by Walter Dörwald.
 
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index b49e13c936..24410996ee 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -169,16 +169,20 @@ checksignals_witharg(void * unused)
 static void
 signal_handler(int sig_num)
 {
-#ifdef WITH_THREAD
-#ifdef WITH_PTH
+    int save_errno = errno;
+
+#if defined(WITH_THREAD) && defined(WITH_PTH)
     if (PyThread_get_thread_ident() != main_thread) {
         pth_raise(*(pth_t *) main_thread, sig_num);
-        return;
     }
+    else
 #endif
+    {
+#ifdef WITH_THREAD
     /* See NOTES section above */
-    if (getpid() == main_pid) {
+    if (getpid() == main_pid)
 #endif
+    {
         Handlers[sig_num].tripped = 1;
         /* Set is_tripped after setting .tripped, as it gets
            cleared in PyErr_CheckSignals() before .tripped. */
@@ -186,24 +190,26 @@ signal_handler(int sig_num)
         Py_AddPendingCall(checksignals_witharg, NULL);
         if (wakeup_fd != -1)
             write(wakeup_fd, "\0", 1);
-#ifdef WITH_THREAD
     }
-#endif
+
+#ifndef HAVE_SIGACTION
 #ifdef SIGCHLD
-    if (sig_num == SIGCHLD) {
-        /* To avoid infinite recursion, this signal remains
-           reset until explicit re-instated.
-           Don't clear the 'func' field as it is our pointer
-           to the Python handler... */
-        return;
-    }
+    /* To avoid infinite recursion, this signal remains
+       reset until explicit re-instated.
+       Don't clear the 'func' field as it is our pointer
+       to the Python handler... */
+    if (sig_num != SIGCHLD)
 #endif
-#ifndef HAVE_SIGACTION
     /* If the handler was not set up with sigaction, reinstall it.  See
      * Python/pythonrun.c for the implementation of PyOS_setsig which
      * makes this true.  See also issue8354. */
     PyOS_setsig(sig_num, signal_handler);
 #endif
+    }
+
+    /* Issue #10311: asynchronously executing signal handlers should not
+       mutate errno under the feet of unsuspecting C code. */
+    errno = save_errno;
 }
 
 
-- 
2.40.0