This reverts commit 5be28c8f85ce99ed2d329d2ad8bdd18ea19473a5. IO threads now take signals just fine, so there's no reason to limit them specifically. Revert the change that prevented that from happening.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> --- kernel/signal.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index f2a1b898da29..cb9acdfb32fa 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -834,9 +834,6 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, if (!valid_signal(sig)) return -EINVAL; - /* PF_IO_WORKER threads don't take any signals */ - if (t->flags & PF_IO_WORKER) - return -ESRCH; if (!si_fromuser(info)) return 0; -- 2.31.0