Re: [PATCH] random: Don't freeze in add_hwgenerator_randomness() if stopping kthread

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Nov 16 2019 - 19:57:54 EST


On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:01:20AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>
> If a reader (user space) task is frozen then it is no longer waiting
> on this waitqueue - at least if I understand correctly how the freezer
> works for user space tasks, that is by interrupting waits via a fake
> signal.

At this point I'm just going to revert the whole thing and we can
sort it out in the next development cycle.

Thanks,
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