The patch titled Subject: fs/proc/vmcore.c: simpler /proc/vmcore cleanup has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/proc/vmcore.c: simpler /proc/vmcore cleanup Iterators aren't necessary as you can just grab the first entry and delete it until no entries left. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121191121.GA20757@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup fs/proc/vmcore.c --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup +++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -1178,18 +1178,16 @@ fs_initcall(vmcore_init); /* Cleanup function for vmcore module. */ void vmcore_cleanup(void) { - struct list_head *pos, *next; - if (proc_vmcore) { proc_remove(proc_vmcore); proc_vmcore = NULL; } /* clear the vmcore list. */ - list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &vmcore_list) { + while (!list_empty(&vmcore_list)) { struct vmcore *m; - m = list_entry(pos, struct vmcore, list); + m = list_first_entry(&vmcore_list, struct vmcore, list); list_del(&m->list); kfree(m); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-use-%u-for-pid-printing-and-slightly-less-stack.patch proc-dont-use-read_once-write_once-for-proc-fail-nth.patch proc-fix-proc-map_files-lookup.patch proc-simpler-proc-vmcore-cleanup.patch seq_file-delete-small-value-optimization.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