Merge 5.6-rc3 into char-misc-next

We need the char/misc fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c b/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c
index a1df0d95151c..8bc1faf71ff2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <trace/events/bcache.h>
 
 #define MAX_OPEN_BUCKETS 128
@@ -733,8 +734,21 @@ int bch_open_buckets_alloc(struct cache_set *c)
 
 int bch_cache_allocator_start(struct cache *ca)
 {
-	struct task_struct *k = kthread_run(bch_allocator_thread,
-					    ca, "bcache_allocator");
+	struct task_struct *k;
+
+	/*
+	 * In case previous btree check operation occupies too many
+	 * system memory for bcache btree node cache, and the
+	 * registering process is selected by OOM killer. Here just
+	 * ignore the SIGKILL sent by OOM killer if there is, to
+	 * avoid kthread_run() being failed by pending signals. The
+	 * bcache registering process will exit after the registration
+	 * done.
+	 */
+	if (signal_pending(current))
+		flush_signals(current);
+
+	k = kthread_run(bch_allocator_thread, ca, "bcache_allocator");
 	if (IS_ERR(k))
 		return PTR_ERR(k);