2 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 611676fd4c2c..8fcd0e6098d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -137,12 +137,6 @@ struct filename;
 #define VMACACHE_MASK (VMACACHE_SIZE - 1)
 
 /*
- * List of flags we want to share for kernel threads,
- * if only because they are not used by them anyway.
- */
-#define CLONE_KERNEL    (CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND)
-
-/*
  * These are the constant used to fake the fixed-point load-average
  * counting. Some notes:
  *  - 11 bit fractions expand to 22 bits by the multiplies: this gives
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 8ac3833f2bdf..4de815c0309a 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void)
          * the init task will end up wanting to create kthreads, which, if
          * we schedule it before we create kthreadd, will OOPS.
          */
-        kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
+        kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS);
         numa_default_policy();
         pid = kernel_thread(kthreadd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES);
         rcu_read_lock();