1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index aaf782327bf3..93bdba13d7d9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -913,14 +913,12 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
         deactivate_mm(tsk, mm);
 
         /*
-         * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if
-         * requested.  We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave
-         * the value intact in a core dump, and to save the unnecessary
-         * trouble, say, a killed vfork parent shouldn't touch this mm.
-         * Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit.
+         * Signal userspace if we're not exiting with a core dump
+         * because we want to leave the value intact for debugging
+         * purposes.
          */
         if (tsk->clear_child_tid) {
-                if (!(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) &&
+                if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) &&
                     atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
                         /*
                          * We don't check the error code - if userspace has