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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-09-21 15:45:04 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-09-22 15:33:21 +0200
commitc7de3d02e678490b3aa0796d9be7dfe5f259374a (patch)
tree8edfc785cebf763aa56d4c1d55d185f74e88eac6 /kernel
parent1f978881ce6c9ac4f4d4a7b6a6e52339eadcd350 (diff)
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fork: use SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK for the user worker signal mask
For a user worker copy_process() blocks every signal except for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. Use SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK instead of open-coding it. No functional changes. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921-work-coredump-fixes-v3-15-8e4adb1619e6@kernel.org Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 623eaead3747..1a20264e9b89 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2140,12 +2140,9 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
if (args->kthread)
p->flags |= PF_KTHREAD;
if (args->user_worker) {
- /*
- * Mark us a user worker, and block any signal that isn't
- * fatal or STOP
- */
+ /* A user worker takes only the signals nobody can block. */
p->flags |= PF_USER_WORKER;
- siginitsetinv(&p->blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL)|sigmask(SIGSTOP));
+ siginitsetinv(&p->blocked, SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK);
}
if (args->io_thread)
p->flags |= PF_IO_WORKER;