call_usermodehelper: no need to unblock signals
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:43:02 +0000 (14:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:45 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
____call_usermodehelper() correctly calls flush_signal_handlers() to set
SIG_DFL, but sigemptyset(->blocked) and recalc_sigpending() are not
needed.

This kthread was forked by workqueue thread, all signals must be unblocked
and ignored, no pending signal is possible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kmod.c

index 6194ec2..7efba6f 100644 (file)
@@ -134,11 +134,8 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
        struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
        int retval;
 
-       /* Unblock all signals */
        spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
        flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);
-       sigemptyset(&current->blocked);
-       recalc_sigpending();
        spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
        /* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */