FAILED: patch "[PATCH] signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

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2026-10-28 15:39 UTC #0 lore raw

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 22b7f491be8f93ff72de0a3fe02b8ee9e64d3f21
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026102837-poem-blog-9727@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 22b7f491be8f93ff72de0a3fe02b8ee9e64d3f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:08:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is used to kick a task in uninterruptible sleep to return to userspace and run task work and then go back to sleep. This mechanism works well but breaks e.g., coredumps. dump_interrupted() only allows fatal signals to interrupt a coredump and the whole regular write path going to actual filesystems is impervious to TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL as well.

Add PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and helpers to raise and restore it. This is the same approach as memalloc_nofs_save(). signal_pending() will not report a fake pending signal via TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL if inside a PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL section.

No functional changes.

Link https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] open here

Reviewed-by Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Signed-off-by Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]>

include/linux/sched.h +1 -1

index 8b3d47a325cc..e431c4195bf0 100644
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
 						 * I am cleaning dirty pages from some other bdi. */
 #define PF_KTHREAD		0x00200000	/* I am a kernel thread */
 #define PF_RANDOMIZE		0x00400000	/* Randomize virtual address space */
-#define PF__HOLE__00800000	0x00800000
+#define PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	0x00800000	/* see no_notify_signal_save() */
 #define PF__HOLE__01000000	0x01000000
 #define PF__HOLE__02000000	0x02000000
 #define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY	0x04000000	/* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_mask */

include/linux/sched/signal.h +25 -2

index 584ae88b435e..6164995da980 100644
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_SCHED_SIGNAL_H
 #define _LINUX_SCHED_SIGNAL_H
 
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/signal.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>

@@ -384,14 +385,36 @@ static inline int task_sigpending(struct task_struct *p)
 	return unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p,TIF_SIGPENDING));
 }
 
+/* Prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting this task. */
+static inline unsigned int no_notify_signal_save(void)
+{
+	unsigned int flags = current->flags;
+
+	current->flags |= PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL;
+	return flags;
+}
+
+/* Restore the previous PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL state. */
+static inline void no_notify_signal_restore(unsigned int flags)
+{
+	current_restore_flags(flags, PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL);
+}
+
+DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0(no_notify_signal,
+		    _T->flags = no_notify_signal_save(),
+		    no_notify_signal_restore(_T->flags),
+		    unsigned int flags)
+
 static inline int signal_pending(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	/*
 	 * TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL isn't really a signal, but it requires the same
 	 * behavior in terms of ensuring that we break out of wait loops
-	 * so that notify signal callbacks can be processed.
+	 * so that notify signal callbacks can be processed. Not for a task
+	 * that asked not to be interrupted by it, see no_notify_signal_save().
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)))
+	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) &&
+	    likely(!(READ_ONCE(p->flags) & PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)))
 		return 1;
 	return task_sigpending(p);
 }

Sasha Levin

maintainer

2026-10-28 21:23 UTC #1 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

From: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 22b7f491be8f93ff72de0a3fe02b8ee9e64d3f21 ]

No functional changes.

Link https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] open here

Reviewed-by Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Signed-off-by Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]>

[ sashal: Assigned PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL to 0x01000000 instead of 0x00800000 to avoid colliding with PF_SWAPWRITE. ]

Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

---
 include/linux/sched.h        |  1 +
 include/linux/sched/signal.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

include/linux/sched.h +1 -0

index 561fb81675fa5..523d727d27a70 100644
@@ -1703,6 +1703,7 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
 #define PF_KTHREAD		0x00200000	/* I am a kernel thread */
 #define PF_RANDOMIZE		0x00400000	/* Randomize virtual address space */
 #define PF_SWAPWRITE		0x00800000	/* Allowed to write to swap */
+#define PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	0x01000000	/* see no_notify_signal_save() */
 #define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY	0x04000000	/* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_mask */
 #define PF_MCE_EARLY		0x08000000      /* Early kill for mce process policy */
 #define PF_MEMALLOC_PIN		0x10000000	/* Allocation context constrained to zones which allow long term pinning. */

include/linux/sched/signal.h +25 -2

index 324a3fd0f3c3e..19298445a6ce6 100644
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_SCHED_SIGNAL_H
 #define _LINUX_SCHED_SIGNAL_H
 
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/signal.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>

@@ -365,14 +366,36 @@ static inline int task_sigpending(struct task_struct *p)
 	return unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p,TIF_SIGPENDING));
 }
 
+/* Prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting this task. */
+static inline unsigned int no_notify_signal_save(void)
+{
+	unsigned int flags = current->flags;
+
+	current->flags |= PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL;
+	return flags;
+}
+
+/* Restore the previous PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL state. */
+static inline void no_notify_signal_restore(unsigned int flags)
+{
+	current_restore_flags(flags, PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL);
+}
+
+DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0(no_notify_signal,
+		    _T->flags = no_notify_signal_save(),
+		    no_notify_signal_restore(_T->flags),
+		    unsigned int flags)
+
 static inline int signal_pending(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	/*
 	 * TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL isn't really a signal, but it requires the same
 	 * behavior in terms of ensuring that we break out of wait loops
-	 * so that notify signal callbacks can be processed.
+	 * so that notify signal callbacks can be processed. Not for a task
+	 * that asked not to be interrupted by it, see no_notify_signal_save().
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)))
+	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) &&
+	    likely(!(READ_ONCE(p->flags) & PF_NO_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)))
 		return 1;
 	return task_sigpending(p);
 }

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