hardcoded SIGSEGV in __die() ?

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 23/03/2020 à 15:43, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
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> Le 23/03/2020 à 15:17, Joakim Tjernlund a écrit :
>> In __die(), see below, there is this call to notify_send() with 
>> SIGSEGV hardcoded, this seems odd
>> to me as the variable "err" holds the true signal(in my case SIGBUS)
>> Should not SIGSEGV be replaced with the true signal no.?
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> As far as I can see, comes from 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=66fcb1059 
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And 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ae87221d3ce49d9de1e43756da834fd0bf05a2ad 
shows it is (was?) similar on x86.

Christophe