On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 08:01:45PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 5/17/23 7:16 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:09 PM Mike Christie
> > <michael.christie@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> +       __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> >> +       rc = get_signal(&ksig);
> >> +       set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> >> +       return rc;
> > 
> > The games with current_state seem nonsensical.
> > 
> > What are they all about? get_signal() shouldn't care, and no other
> > caller does this thing. This just seems completely random.
> 
> Sorry. It's a leftover.
> 
> I was originally calling this from vhost_task_should_stop where before
> calling that function we do a:
> 
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> 
> So, I was hitting get_signal->try_to_freeze->might_sleep->__might_sleep
> and was getting the "do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING"
> warnings.

Also seems you might want to check the return value of you new helper...