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hotkey_kthread() does try_to_freeze() under hotkey_thread_mutex.

We can simply kill this mutex, hotkey_poll_stop_sync() does not need to
serialize with hotkey_kthread().  When kthread_stop() returns the thread
is already dead, it called do_exit()->complete_vfork_done().
Reported-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>