The patch titled Subject: mm: remap_file_pages: initialize populate before usage has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation-fix-2.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: remap_file_pages: initialize populate before usage 'populate' wasn't initialized before being used in error paths, causing panics when mm_populate() would get called with invalid values. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation-fix-2 mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation-fix-2 +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsign struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct vm_area_struct *vma; - unsigned long populate; + unsigned long populate = 0; unsigned long ret = -EINVAL; pr_warn_once("%s (%d) uses deprecated remap_file_pages() syscall. " _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch vmstat-on-demand-vmstat-workers-v8-fix-2.patch mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch linux-next.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation-fix-3.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html