Hello:
This series was applied to bpf/bpf.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 12:54:47 +0530 you wrote:
> bpf_send_signal_task() returns -EPERM whenever the calling context is a
> kernel thread, even when the signal is for a different task. The
> cause is the nmi_uaccess_okay() check in bpf_send_signal_common(),
> which is a statement about current and not about the target task.
>
> Patch 1 removes the check, as the signal path does no user memory
> access and the check has nothing to guard there.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [bpf-next,v2,1/2] bpf: Remove nmi_uaccess_okay() check in
bpf_send_signal_common()
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/93bd472336ac
- [bpf-next,v2,2/2] selftests/bpf: Test bpf_send_signal_task() from kernel
thread context
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/2c79610f72bb
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