Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 111/167] signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ 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").

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Thanks,
Sasha