The patch titled Subject: proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4 fix fs/eventpoll.c Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c~proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4 +++ a/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(tfile_check_list); #include <linux/sysctl.h> +static long long_zero; static long long_max = LONG_MAX; struct ctl_table epoll_table[] = { @@ -300,7 +301,7 @@ struct ctl_table epoll_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(max_user_watches), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax, - .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, + .extra1 = &long_zero, .extra2 = &long_max, }, { } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are scripts-spellingtxt-drop-sepc-from-the-misspelling-list-fix.patch ocfs2-add-locking-filter-debugfs-file-fix.patch ocfs2-clear-zero-in-unaligned-direct-io-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm.patch include-linux-pfn_th-remove-pfn_t_to_virt.patch mm-swap-use-rbtree-for-swap_extent-fix.patch mm-gup-speed-up-check_and_migrate_cma_pages-on-huge-page-fix.patch mm-section-numbers-use-the-type-unsigned-long-fix.patch mm-sparsemem-cleanup-section-number-data-types-fix.patch mm-vmscanc-add-checks-for-incorrect-handling-of-current-reclaim_state.patch proc-use-down_read_killable-mmap_sem-for-proc-pid-map_files-fix.patch mm-oom_killer-add-task-uid-to-info-message-on-an-oom-kill-fix.patch mm-thp-make-transhuge_vma_suitable-available-for-anonymous-thp-fix.patch vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix.patch vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix-fix.patch coda-add-hinting-support-for-partial-file-caching-fix.patch selftests-ptrace-add-a-test-case-for-ptrace_get_syscall_info-checkpatch-fixes.patch resource-fix-locking-in-find_next_iomem_res-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-2-fix.patch proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-4.patch drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch