[PATCH v2 01/17] signal: make force_sigsegv() void

Christian Brauner
2018-06-01T13:22:55Z

force_sigsegv() returned 0 unconditionally so it doesn't make sense to have
it return at all. In addition, there are no callers that check
force_sigsegv()'s return value.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
---
v1->v2:
* unchanged
v0->v1:
* unchanged
---
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 2 +-
kernel/signal.c | 7 ++-----
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 113d1ad1ced7..e138ac16c650 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ int force_sig_pkuerr(void __user *addr, u32 pkey);
int force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap(int errno, void __user *addr);

extern int send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
-extern int force_sigsegv(int, struct task_struct *);
+extern void force_sigsegv(int sig, struct task_struct *p);
extern int force_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
extern int __kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp);
extern int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid);
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 9c33163a6165..c756008d589e 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1468,8 +1468,7 @@ send_sig(int sig, struct task_struct *p, int priv)
return send_sig_info(sig, __si_special(priv), p);
}

-void
-force_sig(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
+void force_sig(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
{
force_sig_info(sig, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p);
}
@@ -1480,8 +1479,7 @@ force_sig(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
* the problem was already a SIGSEGV, we'll want to
* make sure we don't even try to deliver the signal..
*/
-int
-force_sigsegv(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
+void force_sigsegv(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
{
if (sig == SIGSEGV) {
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1490,7 +1488,6 @@ force_sigsegv(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
}
force_sig(SIGSEGV, p);
- return 0;
}

int force_sig_fault(int sig, int code, void __user *addr
--
2.17.0