diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 8ac3833..4de815c 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@
 	 * 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();