linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/8] Revert "signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO

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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:39:29 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     io-uring@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        metze@...ba.org, oleg@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] Revert "signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads"

This reverts commit 4db4b1a0d1779dc159f7b87feb97030ec0b12597.

The IO threads allow and handle SIGSTOP now, so don't special case them
anymore in task_set_jobctl_pending().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8ce96078cb76..5ad8566534e7 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -288,8 +288,7 @@ bool task_set_jobctl_pending(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mask)
 			JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK | JOBCTL_TRAPPING));
 	BUG_ON((mask & JOBCTL_TRAPPING) && !(mask & JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK));
 
-	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) ||
-		     (task->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_IO_WORKER))))
+	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || (task->flags & PF_EXITING)))
 		return false;
 
 	if (mask & JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK)
-- 
2.31.0