There is no need to explicitly send SIGKILL to cifs_demultiplex_thread as it is calling module_put_and_exit to exit cleanly.
socket sk_rcvtimeo is set to 7 HZ so the thread will wake up in 7 seconds and clean itself. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <[email protected]> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 19 ------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 03ed8a0..b4b6d10 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -837,7 +837,6 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p) struct TCP_Server_Info *server = p; unsigned int pdu_length; char *buf = NULL; - struct task_struct *task_to_wake = NULL; struct mid_q_entry *mid_entry; current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; @@ -928,19 +927,7 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p) if (server->smallbuf) /* no sense logging a debug message if NULL */ cifs_small_buf_release(server->smallbuf); - task_to_wake = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL); clean_demultiplex_info(server); - - /* if server->tsk was NULL then wait for a signal before exiting */ - if (!task_to_wake) { - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - while (!signal_pending(current)) { - schedule(); - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - } - set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - } - module_put_and_exit(0); } @@ -2061,8 +2048,6 @@ cifs_find_tcp_session(struct smb_vol *vol) static void cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server) { - struct task_struct *task; - spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); if (--server->srv_count > 0) { spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); @@ -2086,10 +2071,6 @@ cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server) kfree(server->session_key.response); server->session_key.response = NULL; server->session_key.len = 0; - - task = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL); - if (task) - force_sig(SIGKILL, task); } static struct TCP_Server_Info * -- 1.7.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
