From 5a842a7448bbfa9bda0a74ca4f239c1b02bb98d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:18:15 -0600 Subject: Revert "signal: don't allow sending any signals to PF_IO_WORKER threads" This reverts commit 5be28c8f85ce99ed2d329d2ad8bdd18ea19473a5. 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: Jens Axboe --- kernel/signal.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index d22177d37b21..9e172b9341f4 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -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; -- cgit v1.2.3