signals: introduce kernel_sigaction()
Now that allow_signal() is really trivial we can unify it with
disallow_signal(). Add the new helper, kernel_sigaction(), and
reimplement allow_signal/disallow_signal as a trivial wrappers.
This saves one EXPORT_SYMBOL() and the new helper can have more users.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index ac83c59..c9e6536 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -284,8 +284,22 @@
extern void signal_setup_done(int failed, struct ksignal *ksig, int stepping);
extern void signal_delivered(int sig, siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs, int stepping);
extern void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk);
-extern void allow_signal(int);
-extern void disallow_signal(int);
+extern void kernel_sigaction(int, __sighandler_t);
+
+static inline void allow_signal(int sig)
+{
+ /*
+ * Kernel threads handle their own signals. Let the signal code
+ * know it'll be handled, so that they don't get converted to
+ * SIGKILL or just silently dropped.
+ */
+ kernel_sigaction(sig, (__force __sighandler_t)2);
+}
+
+static inline void disallow_signal(int sig)
+{
+ kernel_sigaction(sig, SIG_IGN);
+}
/*
* Eventually that'll replace get_signal_to_deliver(); macro for now,
