On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:39:17 +0900 Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is no need to explicitly send SIGKILL to cifs_demultiplex_thread > as it is calling module_put_and_exit to exit cleanly. > > socket sk_rcvtimeo is set to 7 HZ so the thread will wake up in 7 seconds and > clean itself. > > Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/cifs/connect.c | 19 ------------------- > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c > index 03ed8a0..b4b6d10 100644 > --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c > +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c > @@ -837,7 +837,6 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p) > struct TCP_Server_Info *server = p; > unsigned int pdu_length; > char *buf = NULL; > - struct task_struct *task_to_wake = NULL; > struct mid_q_entry *mid_entry; > > current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; > @@ -928,19 +927,7 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p) > if (server->smallbuf) /* no sense logging a debug message if NULL */ > cifs_small_buf_release(server->smallbuf); > > - task_to_wake = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL); > clean_demultiplex_info(server); > - > - /* if server->tsk was NULL then wait for a signal before exiting */ > - if (!task_to_wake) { > - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > - while (!signal_pending(current)) { > - schedule(); > - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > - } > - set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); > - } > - > module_put_and_exit(0); > } > > @@ -2061,8 +2048,6 @@ cifs_find_tcp_session(struct smb_vol *vol) > static void > cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server) > { > - struct task_struct *task; > - > spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); > if (--server->srv_count > 0) { > spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); > @@ -2086,10 +2071,6 @@ cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server) > kfree(server->session_key.response); > server->session_key.response = NULL; > server->session_key.len = 0; > - > - task = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL); > - if (task) > - force_sig(SIGKILL, task); > } > > static struct TCP_Server_Info * Looks fine, I think. That code is a leftover from when we used a different scheme to take down the kthread and I don't think it's necessary any longer. Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html