The patch titled Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-vmpressure-use-kstrndup-instead-of-kmallocstrncpy.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy Using kstrndup() simplifies the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503201807.24941-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmpressure.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-use-kstrndup-instead-of-kmallocstrncpy mm/vmpressure.c --- a/mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-use-kstrndup-instead-of-kmallocstrncpy +++ a/mm/vmpressure.c @@ -390,12 +390,11 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem char *token; int ret = 0; - spec_orig = spec = kzalloc(MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + spec_orig = spec = kstrndup(args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); if (!spec) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } - strncpy(spec, args, MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN); /* Find required level */ token = strsep(&spec, ","); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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