The call to do_exit in do_sparc_fault immediately follows a call to unhandled_fault. The function unhandled_fault never returns. This means the call to do_exit can never be reached. Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 2.3.41 Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c index fa858626b85b..90dc4ae315c8 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c @@ -248,7 +248,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_sparc_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, int text_fault, int write, } unhandled_fault(address, tsk, regs); - do_exit(SIGKILL); /* * We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made -- 2.20.1