This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
signal-kill-jobctl_task_work.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 450fb0845804e4245b90eb155d7ac34cda11429f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:03:01 -0600
Subject: signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 98b89b649fce39dacb9dc036d6d0fdb8caff73f7 ]
It's no longer used, get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched/jobctl.h | 4 +---
kernel/signal.c | 20 --------------------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/sched/jobctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/jobctl.h
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ struct task_struct;
#define JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT 21 /* switching to TRACED */
#define JOBCTL_LISTENING_BIT 22 /* ptracer is listening for events */
#define JOBCTL_TRAP_FREEZE_BIT 23 /* trap for cgroup freezer */
-#define JOBCTL_TASK_WORK_BIT 24 /* set by TWA_SIGNAL */
#define JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED (1UL << JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED_BIT)
#define JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING (1UL << JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING_BIT)
@@ -29,10 +28,9 @@ struct task_struct;
#define JOBCTL_TRAPPING (1UL << JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT)
#define JOBCTL_LISTENING (1UL << JOBCTL_LISTENING_BIT)
#define JOBCTL_TRAP_FREEZE (1UL << JOBCTL_TRAP_FREEZE_BIT)
-#define JOBCTL_TASK_WORK (1UL << JOBCTL_TASK_WORK_BIT)
#define JOBCTL_TRAP_MASK (JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP | JOBCTL_TRAP_NOTIFY)
-#define JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK (JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING | JOBCTL_TRAP_MASK | JOBCTL_TASK_WORK)
+#define JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK (JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING | JOBCTL_TRAP_MASK)
extern bool task_set_jobctl_pending(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mask);
extern void task_clear_jobctl_trapping(struct task_struct *task);
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2544,26 +2544,6 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
relock:
spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
- /*
- * Make sure we can safely read ->jobctl() in task_work add. As Oleg
- * states:
- *
- * It pairs with mb (implied by cmpxchg) before READ_ONCE. So we
- * roughly have
- *
- * task_work_add: get_signal:
- * STORE(task->task_works, new_work); STORE(task->jobctl);
- * mb(); mb();
- * LOAD(task->jobctl); LOAD(task->task_works);
- *
- * and we can rely on STORE-MB-LOAD [ in task_work_add].
- */
- smp_store_mb(current->jobctl, current->jobctl & ~JOBCTL_TASK_WORK);
- if (unlikely(current->task_works)) {
- spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
- task_work_run();
- goto relock;
- }
/*
* Every stopped thread goes here after wakeup. Check to see if
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/x86-process-setup-io_threads-more-like-normal-user-space-threads.patch
queue-5.10/powerpc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/eventfd-provide-a-eventfd_signal_mask-helper.patch
queue-5.10/fs-provide-locked-helper-variant-of-close_fd_get_file.patch
queue-5.10/relay-fix-type-mismatch-when-allocating-memory-in-re.patch
queue-5.10/eventfd-change-int-to-__u64-in-eventfd_signal-ifndef.patch
queue-5.10/io_uring-pass-in-epoll_uring_wake-for-eventfd-signaling-and-wakeups.patch
queue-5.10/blk-mq-fix-possible-memleak-when-register-hctx-faile.patch
queue-5.10/fix-handling-of-nd-depth-on-lookup_cached-failures-in-try_to_unlazy.patch
queue-5.10/net-provide-__sys_shutdown_sock-that-takes-a-socket.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-unconditionally-run-task_work-from-get_signal.patch
queue-5.10/openrisc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/signal-add-task_sigpending-helper.patch
queue-5.10/net-remove-cmsg-restriction-from-io_uring-based-send-recvmsg-calls.patch
queue-5.10/alpha-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/nios32-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/ia64-don-t-call-handle_signal-unless-there-s-actually-a-signal-queued.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-remove-legacy-twa_signal-path.patch
queue-5.10/revert-proc-don-t-allow-async-path-resolution-of-proc-self-components.patch
queue-5.10/m68k-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/s390-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/um-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/tools-headers-uapi-sync-openat2.h-with-the-kernel-sources.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-provide-create_io_thread-helper.patch
queue-5.10/iov_iter-add-helper-to-save-iov_iter-state.patch
queue-5.10/arc-unbork-5.11-bootup-fix-snafu-in-_tif_notify_signal-handling.patch
queue-5.10/arch-ensure-parisc-powerpc-handle-pf_io_worker-in-copy_thread.patch
queue-5.10/csky-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arm-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-stop-masking-signals-in-create_io_thread.patch
queue-5.10/fs-expose-lookup_cached-through-openat2-resolve_cached.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-add-helper-for-more-targeted-task_work-canceling.patch
queue-5.10/nds32-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/signal-kill-jobctl_task_work.patch
queue-5.10/hexagon-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/sh-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/riscv-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/h8300-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/io_uring-import-5.15-stable-io_uring.patch
queue-5.10/sparc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
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queue-5.10/eventpoll-add-epoll_uring_wake-poll-wakeup-flag.patch
queue-5.10/parisc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/entry-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/x86-wire-up-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-use-tif_notify_signal-if-available.patch
queue-5.10/drbd-fix-an-invalid-memory-access-caused-by-incorrec.patch
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queue-5.10/kernel-allow-fork-with-tif_notify_signal-pending.patch
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queue-5.10/microblaze-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/net-add-accept-helper-not-installing-fd.patch
queue-5.10/ia64-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arm64-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/revert-proc-don-t-allow-async-path-resolution-of-proc-thread-self-components.patch
queue-5.10/fs-make-do_renameat2-take-struct-filename.patch
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queue-5.10/arch-setup-pf_io_worker-threads-like-pf_kthread.patch
queue-5.10/nvme-pci-fix-mempool-alloc-size.patch
queue-5.10/fs-add-support-for-lookup_cached.patch
