[PATCH v10 4/8] fork: Add USER_WORKER flag to ignore signals

Mike Christie
2022-06-20T01:13:53Z

From: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>

Since:

commit 10ab825bdef8 ("change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of
blocking them")

kthreads have been ignoring signals by default, and the vhost layer has
never had a need to change that. This patch adds an option flag,
USER_WORKER_SIG_IGN, handled in copy_process() after copy_sighand()
and copy_signals() so vhost_tasks added in the next patches can continue
to ignore singals.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/sched/task.h | 1 +
 kernel/fork.c              | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index 7f6364e5aa1a..9fbb489b2512 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct css_set;
 #define USER_WORKER		BIT(0)
 #define USER_WORKER_IO		BIT(1)
 #define USER_WORKER_NO_FILES	BIT(2)
+#define USER_WORKER_SIG_IGN	BIT(3)

 struct kernel_clone_args {
 	u64 flags;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0313aa9ead89..c479b8419a6e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2261,6 +2261,9 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	if (retval)
 		goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;

+	if (args->worker_flags & USER_WORKER_SIG_IGN)
+		ignore_signals(p);
+
 	stackleak_task_init(p);

 	if (pid != &init_struct_pid) {
--
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