[PATCH 4.9 177/271] cifs: fix rmmod regression in cifs.ko caused by force_sig changes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 28 2020 - 09:22:06 EST


From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 247bc9470b1eeefc7b58cdf2c39f2866ba651509 ]

Fixes: 72abe3bcf091 ("signal/cifs: Fix cifs_put_tcp_session to call send_sig instead of force_sig")

The global change from force_sig caused module unloading of cifs.ko
to fail (since the cifsd process could not be killed, "rmmod cifs"
now would always fail)

Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 110febd697379..7d46025d5e899 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(void *p)
mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv);

set_freezable();
+ allow_signal(SIGKILL);
while (server->tcpStatus != CifsExiting) {
if (try_to_freeze())
continue;
--
2.20.1