From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 66ae0d1e2d9fe6ec70e73fcfdcf4b390e271c1ac ] fork() fails if signal_pending() is true, but there are two conditions that can lead to that: 1) An actual signal is pending. We want fork to fail for that one, like we always have. 2) TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is pending, because the task has pending task_work. We don't need to make it fail for that case. Allow fork() to proceed if just task_work is pending, by changing the signal_pending() check to task_sigpending(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_stru recalc_sigpending(); spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR; - if (signal_pending(current)) + if (task_sigpending(current)) goto fork_out; retval = -ENOMEM;