The patch titled Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c: make scope of "pos" variable smaller has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was elf-make-scope-of-pos-variable-smaller.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: make scope of "pos" variable smaller Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190314204707.GC18143@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~elf-make-scope-of-pos-variable-smaller +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ struct elfhdr interp_elf_ex; } *loc; struct arch_elf_state arch_state = INIT_ARCH_ELF_STATE; - loff_t pos; loc = kmalloc(sizeof(*loc), GFP_KERNEL); if (!loc) { @@ -744,6 +743,8 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ for (i = 0; i < loc->elf_ex.e_phnum; i++) { if (elf_ppnt->p_type == PT_INTERP) { + loff_t pos; + /* This is the program interpreter used for * shared libraries - for now assume that this * is an a.out format binary _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are ramfs-support-o_tmpfile.patch