The patch titled Subject: kernel/sysctl.c: switch to bitmap_zalloc() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was kernel-sysctlc-switch-to-bitmap_zalloc.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/sysctl.c: switch to bitmap_zalloc() Switch to bitmap_zalloc() to show clearly what we are allocating. Besides that it returns pointer of bitmap type instead of opaque void *. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190304094037.57756-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~kernel-sysctlc-switch-to-bitmap_zalloc +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -3178,9 +3178,7 @@ int proc_do_large_bitmap(struct ctl_tabl if (IS_ERR(kbuf)) return PTR_ERR(kbuf); - tmp_bitmap = kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(bitmap_len), - sizeof(unsigned long), - GFP_KERNEL); + tmp_bitmap = bitmap_zalloc(bitmap_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!tmp_bitmap) { kfree(kbuf); return -ENOMEM; @@ -3271,7 +3269,7 @@ int proc_do_large_bitmap(struct ctl_tabl *ppos += *lenp; } - kfree(tmp_bitmap); + bitmap_free(tmp_bitmap); return err; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are