The patch titled Subject: proc: put task earlier in /proc/*/fail-nth has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth.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/process/submit-checklist.rst 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: proc: put task earlier in /proc/*/fail-nth Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627195427.GE18113@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -1366,10 +1366,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct if (!task) return -ESRCH; len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n", task->fail_nth); - len = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len); put_task_struct(task); - - return len; + return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len); } static const struct file_operations proc_fail_nth_operations = { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-condemn-myself-to-maintainers.patch proc-fixup-pde-allocation-bloat.patch proc-test-proc-self-symlink.patch proc-test-proc-thread-self-symlink.patch proc-smaller-readlock-section-in-readdir-proc.patch proc-put-task-earlier-in-proc-fail-nth.patch proc-save-2-atomic-ops-on-write-to-proc-attr.patch proc-use-macro-in-proc-latency-hook.patch proc-spread-const-a-bit.patch proc-use-unsigned-int-in-proc-stat-hook.patch proc-use-%02u-format.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