From: Oleg Nesterov Move the callsite of print_fatal_signal() down, under "if (sig_kernel_coredump(signr))", so we don't need to check signr != SIGKILL. We are only interested in the sig_kernel_coredump() signals anyway, and due to the previous changes we almost never can see other fatal signals here except SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/signal.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signals-cleanup-the-usage-of-print_fatal_signal kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~signals-cleanup-the-usage-of-print_fatal_signal +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -1778,9 +1778,10 @@ relock: * Anything else is fatal, maybe with a core dump. */ current->flags |= PF_SIGNALED; - if ((signr != SIGKILL) && print_fatal_signals) - print_fatal_signal(regs, signr); + if (sig_kernel_coredump(signr)) { + if (print_fatal_signals) + print_fatal_signal(regs, signr); /* * If it was able to dump core, this kills all * other threads in the group and synchronizes with _