linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] signals: change wait_for_helper() to use kernel

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Message-ID: <20140323193812.GA10530@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:38:12 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] signals: change wait_for_helper() to use
	kernel_sigaction()

Now that we have kernel_sigaction() we can change wait_for_helper()
to use it and cleanups the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/kmod.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 6b375af..c18c891 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -285,10 +285,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
 	pid_t pid;
 
 	/* If SIGCLD is ignored sys_wait4 won't populate the status. */
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	current->sighand->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-
+	kernel_sigaction(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
 	pid = kernel_thread(____call_usermodehelper, sub_info, SIGCHLD);
 	if (pid < 0) {
 		sub_info->retval = pid;
-- 
1.5.5.1

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