Commit 5a842a74 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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Revert "signal: don't allow sending any signals to PF_IO_WORKER threads" 



This reverts commit 5be28c8f.

IO threads now take signals just fine, so there's no reason to limit them
specifically. Revert the change that prevented that from happening.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent b16b3855

kernel/signal.c

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@@ -834,9 +834,6 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, 


	if (!valid_signal(sig))

		return -EINVAL;

	/* PF_IO_WORKER threads don't take any signals */

	if (t->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)

		return -ESRCH;



	if (!si_fromuser(info))

		return 0;