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authorMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>2021-03-29 15:28:15 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2021-03-30 09:40:21 +0200
commit8df1947c71ee53c7e21c96c83796dd8cf06ae77c (patch)
treed9fc6a0386b7adf2428343648354b2e3f1f809dd /kernel/livepatch
parentMerge tag 'livepatching-for-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne... (diff)
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livepatch: Replace the fake signal sending with TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL infrastructure
Livepatch sends a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks of a running transition after a set period of time. It uses TIF_SIGPENDING flag for the purpose. Commit 12db8b690010 ("entry: Add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL") added a generic infrastructure to achieve the same. Replace our bespoke solution with the generic one. Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch')
-rw-r--r--kernel/livepatch/transition.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
index f6310f848f34..3a4beb9395c4 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/stacktrace.h>
+#include <linux/tracehook.h>
#include "core.h"
#include "patch.h"
#include "transition.h"
@@ -369,9 +370,7 @@ static void klp_send_signals(void)
* Send fake signal to all non-kthread tasks which are
* still not migrated.
*/
- spin_lock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
- signal_wake_up(task, 0);
- spin_unlock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
+ set_notify_signal(task);
}
}
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);