[merged] slab_common-remove-test-if-cache-name-is-accessible.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/slab_common.c: remove test if cache name is accessible
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     slab_common-remove-test-if-cache-name-is-accessible.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab_common.c: remove test if cache name is accessible

Since db265eca7700 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Move duping of slab name to
slab_common.c"), the kernel always duplicates the slab cache name when
creating a slab cache, so the test if the slab name is accessible is
useless.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1803231133310.22626@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/slab_common.c |   19 -------------------
 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/slab_common.c~slab_common-remove-test-if-cache-name-is-accessible mm/slab_common.c
--- a/mm/slab_common.c~slab_common-remove-test-if-cache-name-is-accessible
+++ a/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -84,31 +84,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 static int kmem_cache_sanity_check(const char *name, unsigned int size)
 {
-	struct kmem_cache *s = NULL;
-
 	if (!name || in_interrupt() || size < sizeof(void *) ||
 		size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
 		pr_err("kmem_cache_create(%s) integrity check failed\n", name);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
-		char tmp;
-		int res;
-
-		/*
-		 * This happens when the module gets unloaded and doesn't
-		 * destroy its slab cache and no-one else reuses the vmalloc
-		 * area of the module.  Print a warning.
-		 */
-		res = probe_kernel_address(s->name, tmp);
-		if (res) {
-			pr_err("Slab cache with size %u has lost its name\n",
-			       s->object_size);
-			continue;
-		}
-	}
-
 	WARN_ON(strchr(name, ' '));	/* It confuses parsers */
 	return 0;
 }
_

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


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