I do not see panic calling rewind_stack_do_exit anywhere, nor can I find anywhere in the history where doublefault_shim has called rewind_stack_do_exit. So I don't think this comment was ever actually correct. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 7d8d8cfdee9a ("x86/doublefault/32: Rewrite the x86_32 #DF handler and unify with 64-bit") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/doublefault_32.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/doublefault_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/doublefault_32.c index d1d49e3d536b..3b58d8703094 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/doublefault_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/doublefault_32.c @@ -77,9 +77,6 @@ asmlinkage noinstr void __noreturn doublefault_shim(void) * some way to reconstruct CR3. We could make a credible guess based * on cpu_tlbstate, but that would be racy and would not account for * PTI. - * - * Instead, don't bother. We can return through - * rewind_stack_do_exit() instead. */ panic("cannot return from double fault\n"); } -- 2.20.1