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Commit 9537bae0 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers
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signalfd: use wake_up_pollfree()



wake_up_poll() uses nr_exclusive=1, so it's not guaranteed to wake up
all exclusive waiters.  Yet, POLLFREE *must* wake up all waiters.  epoll
and aio poll are fortunately not affected by this, but it's very
fragile.  Thus, the new function wake_up_pollfree() has been introduced.

Convert signalfd to use wake_up_pollfree().

Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: d80e731e

 ("epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209010455.42744-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
parent a880b28a
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