The patch titled Subject: fs/stat.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-stat-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Subject: fs/stat.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check new_valid_dev() always returns 1, so the !new_valid_dev() check is not needed. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/stat.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/stat.c~fs-stat-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check fs/stat.c --- a/fs/stat.c~fs-stat-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check +++ a/fs/stat.c @@ -367,8 +367,6 @@ static long cp_new_stat64(struct kstat * INIT_STRUCT_STAT64_PADDING(tmp); #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS /* mips has weird padding, so we don't get 64 bits there */ - if (!new_valid_dev(stat->dev) || !new_valid_dev(stat->rdev)) - return -EOVERFLOW; tmp.st_dev = new_encode_dev(stat->dev); tmp.st_rdev = new_encode_dev(stat->rdev); #else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx are -- 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