signals: jffs2: fix the wrong usage of disallow_signal()
jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does disallow_signal(SIGHUP) around jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() and the comment says "We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us". But disallow_signal() can't ensure that jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() won't be interrupted by SIGHUP, the problem is that SIGHUP can be already pending when disallow_signal() is called, and in this case any interruptible sleep won't block. Note: this is in fact because disallow_signal() is buggy and should be fixed, see the next changes. But there is another reason why disallow_signal() is wrong: SIG_IGN set by disallow_signal() silently discards any SIGHUP which can be sent before the next allow_signal(SIGHUP). Change this code to use sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK/SIG_BLOCK, SIGHUP). This even matches the old (and wrong) semantics allow/disallow had when this logic was written. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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