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Subject[PATCH 2/2] signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads
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Just like we don't allow normal signals to IO threads, don't deliver a
STOP to a task that has PF_IO_WORKER set. The IO threads don't take
signals in general, and have no means of flushing out a stop either.

Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
kernel/signal.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 730ecd3d6faf..b113bf647fb4 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2349,6 +2349,10 @@ static bool do_signal_stop(int signr)

t = current;
while_each_thread(current, t) {
+ /* don't STOP PF_IO_WORKER threads */
+ if (t->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)
+ continue;
+
/*
* Setting state to TASK_STOPPED for a group
* stop is always done with the siglock held,
--
2.31.0
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