diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 3b01b646e528e189b57a1876abf2d4f13364a1bb..0491da3b28c36bbf786f1f1303d3bb44f6bfdb98 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -741,10 +741,21 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
 			si.si_signo = signum;
 			si.si_errno = 0;
 		        si.si_code  = reason;
+			/*
+			 * Posix definies POLL_IN and friends to be signal
+			 * specific si_codes for SIG_POLL.  Linux extended
+			 * these si_codes to other signals in a way that is
+			 * ambiguous if other signals also have signal
+			 * specific si_codes.  In that case use SI_SIGIO instead
+			 * to remove the ambiguity.
+			 */
+			if (sig_specific_sicodes(signum))
+				si.si_code = SI_SIGIO;
+
 			/* Make sure we are called with one of the POLL_*
 			   reasons, otherwise we could leak kernel stack into
 			   userspace.  */
-			BUG_ON((reason & __SI_MASK) != __SI_POLL);
+			BUG_ON((reason < POLL_IN) || ((reason - POLL_IN) >= NSIGPOLL));
 			if (reason - POLL_IN >= NSIGPOLL)
 				si.si_band  = ~0L;
 			else
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index e2678b5dbb213f6751283ecc890be2aad304008a..c97cc20369c07242a36e50b41d820b5fa5e2b1d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -380,10 +380,18 @@ int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig);
         rt_sigmask(SIGCONT)   |  rt_sigmask(SIGCHLD)   | \
 	rt_sigmask(SIGWINCH)  |  rt_sigmask(SIGURG)    )
 
+#define SIG_SPECIFIC_SICODES_MASK (\
+	rt_sigmask(SIGILL)    |  rt_sigmask(SIGFPE)    | \
+	rt_sigmask(SIGSEGV)   |  rt_sigmask(SIGBUS)    | \
+	rt_sigmask(SIGTRAP)   |  rt_sigmask(SIGCHLD)   | \
+	rt_sigmask(SIGPOLL)   |  rt_sigmask(SIGSYS)    | \
+	SIGEMT_MASK                                    )
+
 #define sig_kernel_only(sig)		siginmask(sig, SIG_KERNEL_ONLY_MASK)
 #define sig_kernel_coredump(sig)	siginmask(sig, SIG_KERNEL_COREDUMP_MASK)
 #define sig_kernel_ignore(sig)		siginmask(sig, SIG_KERNEL_IGNORE_MASK)
 #define sig_kernel_stop(sig)		siginmask(sig, SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK)
+#define sig_specific_sicodes(sig)	siginmask(sig, SIG_SPECIFIC_SICODES_MASK)
 
 #define sig_fatal(t, signr) \
 	(!siginmask(signr, SIG_KERNEL_IGNORE_MASK|SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK) && \
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
index 9c4eca6b374a6c86c83e33a73f2d6800cedf7215..9e956ea94d57573d8c1c0dc76d3b378c29660ce4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
 #define SI_TIMER __SI_CODE(__SI_TIMER,-2) /* sent by timer expiration */
 #define SI_MESGQ __SI_CODE(__SI_MESGQ,-3) /* sent by real time mesq state change */
 #define SI_ASYNCIO	-4		/* sent by AIO completion */
-#define SI_SIGIO	-5		/* sent by queued SIGIO */
+#define SI_SIGIO __SI_CODE(__SI_POLL,-5) /* sent by queued SIGIO */
 #define SI_TKILL	-6		/* sent by tkill system call */
 #define SI_DETHREAD	-7		/* sent by execve() killing subsidiary threads */
 
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
 #define NSIGCHLD	6
 
 /*
- * SIGPOLL si_codes
+ * SIGPOLL (or any other signal without signal specific si_codes) si_codes
  */
 #define POLL_IN		(__SI_POLL|1)	/* data input available */
 #define POLL_OUT	(__SI_POLL|2)	/* output buffers available */