From: Oleg Nesterov Now that we don't pre-allocate the new ->sighand, we can kill the first fast path, it doesn't make sense any longer. At best, it can save one "list_empty()" check but leads to the code duplication. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/exec.c | 10 ---------- 1 files changed, 10 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/exec.c~exec-consolidate-2-fast-paths fs/exec.c --- a/fs/exec.c~exec-consolidate-2-fast-paths +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -752,16 +752,6 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct struct task_struct *leader = NULL; int count; - /* - * If we don't share sighandlers, then we aren't sharing anything - * and we can just re-use it all. - */ - if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1) { - signalfd_detach(tsk); - exit_itimers(sig); - return 0; - } - if (thread_group_empty(tsk)) goto no_thread_group; _