On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Half of the times when error_code and trap_nr are set are already in s/when// I think > do_trap_no_signal. Move the other time these are set into do_trap_no_signal, Please write function as do_trap_no_signal() so it's more obvious what you are talking about. > and give do_trap_no_signal a single exit where a signals are sent. s/a/// or s/a/all/ Not sure what you wanted to do here. > After the move the comment documeting this all is much easier to follow > as everything is together in one place. > > Also update the string that is passed in to const. The only user of that > str is die and it already takes a const string, so this just makes it explicit string > that the string won't change. > > This prepares the way for adding a second caller to do_trap_no_signal. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > index 31a689b67be3..f31c0ddee278 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) > } > > static nokprobe_inline int > -do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, char *str, > +do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, const char *str, > struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > if (v8086_mode(regs)) { > @@ -202,10 +202,8 @@ do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, char *str, > error_code, trapnr)) > return 0; > } > - return -1; > } > - > - if (!user_mode(regs)) { > + else if (!user_mode(regs)) { Please put that 'else if' right after the closing bracket, i.e. } else if (...) { > if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr)) > return 0; With that fixed: Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>