Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make cifsd (more)

[Steve French]

Jeff,
Not seeing any objections to your revised approach (to not allowing
signals for cifsd kernel thread), I just merged something similar to
your patch to the cifs-2.6.git tree (also fixed some nearby lines that
went past 80 columns).

Thanks



Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index f4e9266..27c1ebe 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -348,7 +348,6 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
	int isMultiRsp;
	int reconnect;

-	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
	current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
	server->tsk = current;	/* save process info to wake at shutdown */
	cFYI(1, ("Demultiplex PID: %d", current->pid));
@@ -2074,7 +2073,7 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct
cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
				   always wake up processes blocked in
				   tcp in recv_mesg then we could remove the
				   send_sig call */
-				send_sig(SIGKILL,srvTcp->tsk,1);
+				force_sig(SIGKILL,srvTcp->tsk);
				tsk = srvTcp->tsk;
				if(tsk)
					kthread_stop(tsk);
@@ -2093,7 +2092,7 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct
cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
					if ((temp_rc == -ESHUTDOWN) &&
					   (pSesInfo->server) && (pSesInfo->server->tsk)) {
						struct task_struct *tsk;
-						send_sig(SIGKILL,pSesInfo->server->tsk,1);
+						force_sig(SIGKILL,pSesInfo->server->tsk);
						tsk = pSesInfo->server->tsk;
						if (tsk)
							kthread_stop(tsk);
@@ -3345,7 +3344,7 @@ cifs_umount(struct super_block *sb, struct
cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb)
			} else if (rc == -ESHUTDOWN) {
				cFYI(1,("Waking up socket by sending it signal"));
				if (cifsd_task) {
-					send_sig(SIGKILL,cifsd_task,1);
+					force_sig(SIGKILL,cifsd_task);
					kthread_stop(cifsd_task);
				}
				rc = 0;

--
Thanks,

Steve
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