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    change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of blocking them · 10ab825b
    Oleg Nesterov 提交于
    Currently kernel threads use sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) to protect against
    signals.  This doesn't prevent the signal delivery, this only blocks
    signal_wake_up().  Every "killall -33 kthreadd" means a "struct siginfo"
    leak.
    
    Change kthreadd_setup() to set all handlers to SIG_IGN instead of blocking
    them (make a new helper ignore_signals() for that).  If the kernel thread
    needs some signal, it should use allow_signal() anyway, and in that case it
    should not use CLONE_SIGHAND.
    
    Note that we can't change daemonize() (should die!) in the same way,
    because it can be used along with CLONE_SIGHAND.  This means that
    allow_signal() still should unblock the signal to work correctly with
    daemonize()ed threads.
    
    However, disallow_signal() doesn't block the signal any longer but ignores
    it.
    
    NOTE: with or without this patch the kernel threads are not protected from
    handle_stop_signal(), this seems harmless, but not good.
    Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
    Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    10ab825b
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