From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This patch modifies the startup of kafscmd, kafsasyncd, and kafstimod
to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread and
daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.

In addition since by default all signals are ignored when delivered
to a kernel thread the code to flush signals has been removed.

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 fs/afs/cmservice.c  |   10 +++++-----
 fs/afs/internal.h   |   11 -----------
 fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c |   17 ++++++-----------
 fs/afs/kafstimod.c  |   16 ++++++----------
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cmservice.c b/fs/afs/cmservice.c
index 3d097fd..f7e2355 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cmservice.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cmservice.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include "server.h"
 #include "cell.h"
 #include "transport.h"
@@ -120,8 +121,6 @@ static int kafscmd(void *arg)
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "kAFS: Started kafscmd %d\n", current->pid);
 
-	daemonize("kafscmd");
-
 	complete(&kafscmd_alive);
 
 	/* loop around looking for things to attend to */
@@ -133,7 +132,6 @@ static int kafscmd(void *arg)
 			for (;;) {
 				set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 				if (!list_empty(&kafscmd_attention_list) ||
-				    signal_pending(current) ||
 				    kafscmd_die)
 					break;
 
@@ -297,8 +295,10 @@ int afscm_start(void)
 
 	down_write(&afscm_sem);
 	if (!afscm_usage) {
-		ret = kernel_thread(kafscmd, NULL, 0);
-		if (ret < 0)
+		struct task_struct *task;
+		task = kthread_run(kafscmd, NULL, "kafscmd");
+		ret = PTR_ERR(task);
+		if (IS_ERR(task))
 			goto out;
 
 		wait_for_completion(&kafscmd_alive);
diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
index 5151d5d..2d667b7 100644
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -40,17 +40,6 @@
 #define _net(FMT, a...)		do { } while(0)
 #endif
 
-static inline void afs_discard_my_signals(void)
-{
-	while (signal_pending(current)) {
-		siginfo_t sinfo;
-
-		spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-		dequeue_signal(current,&current->blocked, &sinfo);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	}
-}
-
 /*
  * cell.c
  */
diff --git a/fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c b/fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c
index 615df24..ead025f 100644
--- a/fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c
+++ b/fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include "cell.h"
 #include "server.h"
 #include "volume.h"
@@ -56,15 +57,15 @@ static void kafsasyncd_null_call_error_func(struct rxrpc_call *call)
  */
 int afs_kafsasyncd_start(void)
 {
-	int ret;
+	struct task_struct *task;
 
-	ret = kernel_thread(kafsasyncd, NULL, 0);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
+	task = kthread_run(kafsasyncd, NULL, "kafsasyncd");
+	if (IS_ERR(task))
+		return PTR_ERR(task);
 
 	wait_for_completion(&kafsasyncd_alive);
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 } /* end afs_kafsasyncd_start() */
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
@@ -95,8 +96,6 @@ static int kafsasyncd(void *arg)
 
 	printk("kAFS: Started kafsasyncd %d\n", current->pid);
 
-	daemonize("kafsasyncd");
-
 	complete(&kafsasyncd_alive);
 
 	/* loop around looking for things to attend to */
@@ -106,7 +105,6 @@ static int kafsasyncd(void *arg)
 
 		for (;;) {
 			if (!list_empty(&kafsasyncd_async_attnq) ||
-			    signal_pending(current) ||
 			    kafsasyncd_die)
 				break;
 
@@ -119,9 +117,6 @@ static int kafsasyncd(void *arg)
 
 		try_to_freeze();
 
-		/* discard pending signals */
-		afs_discard_my_signals();
-
 		die = kafsasyncd_die;
 
 		/* deal with the next asynchronous operation requiring
diff --git a/fs/afs/kafstimod.c b/fs/afs/kafstimod.c
index 694344e..caeac88 100644
--- a/fs/afs/kafstimod.c
+++ b/fs/afs/kafstimod.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include "cell.h"
 #include "volume.h"
 #include "kafstimod.h"
@@ -36,15 +37,15 @@ static int kafstimod(void *arg);
  */
 int afs_kafstimod_start(void)
 {
-	int ret;
+	struct task_struct *task;
 
-	ret = kernel_thread(kafstimod, NULL, 0);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
+	task = kthread_run(kafstimod, NULL, "kafstimod");
+	if (IS_ERR(task))
+		return PTR_ERR(task);
 
 	wait_for_completion(&kafstimod_alive);
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 } /* end afs_kafstimod_start() */
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
@@ -72,8 +73,6 @@ static int kafstimod(void *arg)
 
 	printk("kAFS: Started kafstimod %d\n", current->pid);
 
-	daemonize("kafstimod");
-
 	complete(&kafstimod_alive);
 
 	/* loop around looking for things to attend to */
@@ -94,9 +93,6 @@ static int kafstimod(void *arg)
 
 		try_to_freeze();
 
-		/* discard pending signals */
-		afs_discard_my_signals();
-
 		/* work out the time to elapse before the next event */
 		spin_lock(&kafstimod_lock);
 		if (list_empty(&kafstimod_list)) {
-- 
1.5.0.g53756

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