The patch titled Subject: fix up for "iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec" has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fix up for "iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200928212542.468e1fef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ */ #include <linux/mman.h> -#include <linux/compat.h> #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/mempolicy.h> @@ -1189,15 +1188,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pi goto out; } -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT - if (in_compat_syscall()) - ret = compat_import_iovec(READ, - (struct compat_iovec __user *)vec, vlen, - ARRAY_SIZE(iovstack), &iov, &iter); - else -#endif - ret = import_iovec(READ, vec, vlen, ARRAY_SIZE(iovstack), - &iov, &iter); + ret = import_iovec(READ, vec, vlen, ARRAY_SIZE(iovstack), &iov, &iter); if (ret < 0) goto out; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api.patch