The patch titled Subject: fs/proc: make pde_get() return nothing has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-proc-make-pde_get-return-nothing.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-proc-make-pde_get-return-nothing.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-proc-make-pde_get-return-nothing.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: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx> Subject: fs/proc: make pde_get() return nothing We don't need pde_get()'s return value, so make pde_get() return nothing Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201211061944.GA2387571@rlk Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/internal.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/internal.h~fs-proc-make-pde_get-return-nothing +++ a/fs/proc/internal.h @@ -190,10 +190,9 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup_de(struct ino extern int proc_readdir(struct file *, struct dir_context *); int proc_readdir_de(struct file *, struct dir_context *, struct proc_dir_entry *); -static inline struct proc_dir_entry *pde_get(struct proc_dir_entry *pde) +static inline void pde_get(struct proc_dir_entry *pde) { refcount_inc(&pde->refcnt); - return pde; } extern void pde_put(struct proc_dir_entry *); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sh_def@xxxxxxx are mmslab_common-use-list_for_each_entry-in-dump_unreclaimable_slab.patch mm-shmemc-make-shmem_mapping-inline.patch mm-page_counter-use-page_counter_read-in-page_counter_set_max.patch mm-hugetlbc-just-use-put_page_testzero-instead-of-page_count.patch mm-compaction-move-compaction_suitables-comment-to-right-place.patch mm-compaction-make-defer_compaction-and-compaction_deferred-static.patch mm-oom_kill-change-comment-and-rename-is_dump_unreclaim_slabs.patch fs-proc-make-pde_get-return-nothing.patch acctc-use-elif-instead-of-end-and-elif.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-mem_cgroup_page_lruvec.patch