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diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 50c9926..f2b96b0 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -397,20 +397,8 @@ void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
flush_sigqueue(&tsk->pending);
if (sig) {
/*
- * We are cleaning up the signal_struct here. We delayed
- * calling exit_itimers until after flush_sigqueue, just in
- * case our thread-local pending queue contained a queued
- * timer signal that would have been cleared in
- * exit_itimers. When that called sigqueue_free, it would
- * attempt to re-take the tasklist_lock and deadlock. This
- * can never happen if we ensure that all queues the
- * timer's signal might be queued on have been flushed
- * first. The shared_pending queue, and our own pending
- * queue are the only queues the timer could be on, since
- * there are no other threads left in the group and timer
- * signals are constrained to threads inside the group.
+ * We are cleaning up the signal_struct here.
*/
- exit_itimers(sig);
exit_thread_group_keys(sig);
kmem_cache_free(signal_cachep, sig);
}
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