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    SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 111/167] signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
    Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:

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


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