linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/11] signals: kill the obsolete sigdelset() and recalc_sigpending() in allow

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Message-ID: <20140323193804.GA10517@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:38:04 +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 08/11] signals: kill the obsolete sigdelset() and
	recalc_sigpending() in allow_signal()

allow_signal() does sigdelset(current->blocked) due to historic
reason, previously it could be called by a daemonize()'ed kthread,
and daemonize() played with current->blocked.

Now that daemonize() has gone away we can remove sigdelset() and
recalc_sigpending(). If a user really wants to unblock a signal,
it must use sigprocmask() or set_current_block() explicitely.

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

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index a2b8c1b..30bfe53 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3069,16 +3069,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_tgsigqueueinfo,
  */
 void allow_signal(int sig)
 {
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	/* This is only needed for daemonize()'ed kthreads */
-	sigdelset(&current->blocked, sig);
 	/*
 	 * Kernel threads handle their own signals. Let the signal code
 	 * know it'll be handled, so that they don't get converted to
 	 * SIGKILL or just silently dropped.
 	 */
+	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	current->sighand->action[(sig)-1].sa.sa_handler = (void __user *)2;
-	recalc_sigpending();
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(allow_signal);
-- 
1.5.5.1

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