+ slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: slab: fix for_each_kmem_cache_node()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node.patch

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: slab: fix for_each_kmem_cache_node()

Fix a bug (discovered with kmemcheck) in for_each_kmem_cache_node().  The
for loop reads the array "node" before verifying that the index is within
the range.  This results in kmemcheck warning.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/slab.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/slab.h~slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node mm/slab.h
--- a/mm/slab.h~slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node
+++ a/mm/slab.h
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache_node *ge
  * a kmem_cache_node structure allocated (which is true for all online nodes)
  */
 #define for_each_kmem_cache_node(__s, __node, __n) \
-	for (__node = 0; __n = get_node(__s, __node), __node < nr_node_ids; __node++) \
-		 if (__n)
+	for (__node = 0; __node < nr_node_ids; __node++) \
+		 if ((__n = get_node(__s, __node)))
 
 #endif
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are

slab-fix-for_each_kmem_cache_node.patch
linux-next.patch

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