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From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.11 43/44] signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:24:58 -0400
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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

[ Upstream commit 4db4b1a0d1779dc159f7b87feb97030ec0b12597 ]

Just like we don't allow normal signals to IO threads, don't deliver a
STOP to a task that has PF_IO_WORKER set. The IO threads don't take
signals in general, and have no means of flushing out a stop either.

Longer term, we may want to look into allowing stop of these threads,
as it relates to eg process freezing. For now, this prevents a spin
issue if a SIGSTOP is delivered to the parent task.

Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 55526b941011..00a3840f6037 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ bool task_set_jobctl_pending(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mask)
 			JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK | JOBCTL_TRAPPING));
 	BUG_ON((mask & JOBCTL_TRAPPING) && !(mask & JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK));
 
-	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || (task->flags & PF_EXITING)))
+	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) ||
+		     (task->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_IO_WORKER))))
 		return false;
 
 	if (mask & JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK)
-- 
2.30.1