The patch titled
     Freezer: do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     freezer-do-not-allow-freezing-processes-to-clear-tif_sigpending.patch

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Subject: Freezer: do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
so that they will not race with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN 
kernel/signal.c~freezer-do-not-allow-freezing-processes-to-clear-tif_sigpending 
kernel/signal.c
--- 
a/kernel/signal.c~freezer-do-not-allow-freezing-processes-to-clear-tif_sigpending
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct t
 
 void recalc_sigpending(void)
 {
-       if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current))
+       if (!recalc_sigpending_tsk(current) && !freezing(current))
                clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
 
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
freezer-do-not-allow-freezing-processes-to-clear-tif_sigpending.patch
shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch

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