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signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads

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>

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Eric W. Biederman and committed by
Jens Axboe
4db4b1a0 5be28c8f

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kernel/signal.c
··· 288 288 JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK | JOBCTL_TRAPPING)); 289 289 BUG_ON((mask & JOBCTL_TRAPPING) && !(mask & JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK)); 290 290 291 - if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || (task->flags & PF_EXITING))) 291 + if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || 292 + (task->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_IO_WORKER)))) 292 293 return false; 293 294 294 295 if (mask & JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK)