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Message-ID: <20180528142005.GB30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 15:20:05 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        james.morris@...rosoft.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, sds@...ho.nsa.gov, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        oleg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] signal: make do_sigpending() void

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 03:49:15PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> do_sigpending() returned 0 unconditionally so it doesn't make sense to have
> it return at all. This allows us to simplify a bunch of syscall callers.

Yeah, that should've been done in "signal: lift sigset size check out of
do_sigpending()" last year; missed that on review back then.
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>