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