[MTD] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API

thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking
around blocking signals directly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
index b879a66daa9e037964ff858f362e8b7cb062b207..1aa018abd3327af3d2b040a99e36ade308fc1c5a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/hdreg.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 static LIST_HEAD(blktrans_majors);
@@ -83,17 +84,6 @@ static int mtd_blktrans_thread(void *arg)
        /* we might get involved when memory gets low, so use PF_MEMALLOC */
        current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_NOFREEZE;
 
-       daemonize("%sd", tr->name);
-
-       /* daemonize() doesn't do this for us since some kernel threads
-          actually want to deal with signals. We can't just call
-          exit_sighand() since that'll cause an oops when we finally
-          do exit. */
-       spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-       sigfillset(&current->blocked);
-       recalc_sigpending();
-       spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-
        spin_lock_irq(rq->queue_lock);
 
        while (!tr->blkcore_priv->exiting) {
@@ -365,6 +355,7 @@ static struct mtd_notifier blktrans_notifier = {
 
 int register_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr)
 {
+       struct task_struct *task;
        int ret, i;
 
        /* Register the notifier if/when the first device type is
@@ -403,13 +394,13 @@ int register_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr)
        blk_queue_hardsect_size(tr->blkcore_priv->rq, tr->blksize);
        tr->blkshift = ffs(tr->blksize) - 1;
 
-       ret = kernel_thread(mtd_blktrans_thread, tr, CLONE_KERNEL);
-       if (ret < 0) {
+       task = kthread_run(mtd_blktrans_thread, tr, "%sd", tr->name);
+       if (IS_ERR(task)) {
                blk_cleanup_queue(tr->blkcore_priv->rq);
                unregister_blkdev(tr->major, tr->name);
                kfree(tr->blkcore_priv);
                mutex_unlock(&mtd_table_mutex);
-               return ret;
+               return PTR_ERR(task);
        }
 
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tr->devs);