The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that
exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem
in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous
exceptions.
Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the
signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the
delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can
not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being
delivered.
So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing
and pointless.
Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because
using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig.
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.j...@samsung.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlay...@primarydata.com>
Cc: Steve French <smfre...@gmail.com>
Fixes: a5c3e1c725af ("Revert "cifs: No need to send SIGKILL to demux_thread
during umount"")
Fixes: e7ddee9037e7 ("cifs: disable sharing session and tcon and add new TCP
sharing code")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
---
fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 8c4121da624e..ed22bffb3fcc 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@ cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, int
from_reconnect)
task = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL);
if (task)
- force_sig(SIGKILL, task);
+ send_sig(SIGKILL, task, 1);
}
static struct TCP_Server_Info *
--
2.21.0
