From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:41:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 111/167] signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate In-Reply-To: <20190903194526.GH5281@sasha-vm> (Sasha Levin's message of "Tue, 3 Sep 2019 15:45:26 -0400") References: <20190903162519.7136-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20190903162519.7136-111-sashal@kernel.org> <87ef0xqq9f.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20190903194526.GH5281@sasha-vm> List-ID: Message-ID: <87y2z4nhd8.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> To: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Sasha Levin writes: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019@11:49:16AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>Sasha Levin writes: >> >>> From: "Eric W. Biederman" >>> >>> [ Upstream commit 15773ae938d8d93d982461990bebad6e1d7a1830 ] >> >>To the best of my knowledge this is just a clean up, no changes in >>behavior are present. >> >>The only reason I can see to backport this is so that later fixes could >>be applied cleanly. >> >>So while I have no objections to this patch being backported I don't see >>why you would want to either. > > This patch along with the next one came in as a dependency for > a8c715b4dd73c ("ARC: mm: SIGSEGV userspace trying to access kernel > virtual memory"). Thanks for providing the rest of the context. That looks like a perfect reason for backporting this patch. Eric