The patch titled Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c: spread const a little has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was elf-spread-const-a-little.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c: spread const a little Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204202830.GC27482@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~elf-spread-const-a-little +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ #endif static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm); -static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, - int, int, unsigned long); #ifdef CONFIG_USELIB static int load_elf_library(struct file *); @@ -347,7 +345,7 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b #ifndef elf_map static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *filep, unsigned long addr, - struct elf_phdr *eppnt, int prot, int type, + const struct elf_phdr *eppnt, int prot, int type, unsigned long total_size) { unsigned long map_addr; @@ -387,7 +385,7 @@ static unsigned long elf_map(struct file #endif /* !elf_map */ -static unsigned long total_mapping_size(struct elf_phdr *cmds, int nr) +static unsigned long total_mapping_size(const struct elf_phdr *cmds, int nr) { int i, first_idx = -1, last_idx = -1; @@ -414,7 +412,7 @@ static unsigned long total_mapping_size( * header pointed to by elf_ex, into a newly allocated array. The caller is * responsible for freeing the allocated data. Returns an ERR_PTR upon failure. */ -static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(struct elfhdr *elf_ex, +static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex, struct file *elf_file) { struct elf_phdr *elf_phdata = NULL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-test-with-vsyscall-in-mind.patch ramfs-support-o_tmpfile.patch proc-calculate-end-pointer-for-proc-lookup-at-compile-time.patch