signal: don't allow STOP on PF_IO_WORKER threads

Just like we don't allow normal signals to IO threads, don't deliver a
STOP to a task that has PF_IO_WORKER set. The IO threads don't take
signals in general, and have no means of flushing out a stop either.

Longer term, we may want to look into allowing stop of these threads,
as it relates to eg process freezing. For now, this prevents a spin
issue if a SIGSTOP is delivered to the parent task.

Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>

Author: ebiederm

kernel/signal.c

@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ bool task_set_jobctl_pending(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mask)
 			JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK | JOBCTL_TRAPPING));
 	BUG_ON((mask & JOBCTL_TRAPPING) && !(mask & JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK));
 
-	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) || (task->flags & PF_EXITING)))
+	if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(task) ||
+		     (task->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_IO_WORKER))))
 		return false;
 
 	if (mask & JOBCTL_STOP_SIGMASK)