[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled

[Herbert Xu]

Please cc networking patches to netdev at vger.kernel.org.

Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> The following patch is a first stab at removing this need. It makes it
> so that in tcp_recvmsg() we also check kthread_should_stop() at any
> point where we currently check to see if the task was signalled. If
> that returns true, then it acts as if it were signalled and returns to
> the calling function.

This just doesn't seem to fit.  Why should networking care about kthreads?

Perhaps you can get kthread_stop to send a signal instead?

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