diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c
index fa858626b85b..90dc4ae315c8 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c
@@ -248,7 +248,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_sparc_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, int text_fault, int write,
 	}
 
 	unhandled_fault(address, tsk, regs);
-	do_exit(SIGKILL);
 
 /*
  * We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made