From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> [ Upstream commit 72abe3bcf0911d69b46c1e8bdb5612675e0ac42c ] The locking in force_sig_info is not prepared to deal with a task that exits or execs (as sighand may change). The is not a locking problem in force_sig as force_sig is only built to handle synchronous exceptions. Further the function force_sig_info changes the signal state if the signal is ignored, or blocked or if SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will prevent the delivery of the signal. The signal SIGKILL can not be ignored and can not be blocked and SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE won't prevent it from being delivered. So using force_sig rather than send_sig for SIGKILL is confusing and pointless. Because it won't impact the sending of the signal and and because using force_sig is wrong, replace force_sig with send_sig. Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Fixes: a5c3e1c725af ("Revert "cifs: No need to send SIGKILL to demux_thread during umount"") Fixes: e7ddee9037e7 ("cifs: disable sharing session and tcon and add new TCP sharing code") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 7e85070..a59dcda 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2454,7 +2454,7 @@ static int match_server(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *vol) task = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL); if (task) - force_sig(SIGKILL, task); + send_sig(SIGKILL, task, 1); } static struct TCP_Server_Info * -- 1.8.3