The patch titled Subject: shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes.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: shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes WARNING: Block comments should align the * on each line #143: FILE: mm/shmem.c:643: + /* + * Make sure the inode is either on the global list or deleted from total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 91 lines checked NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace. ./patches/shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode.patch has style problems, please review. NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -640,10 +640,11 @@ drop: goto put; move_back: /* - * Make sure the inode is either on the global list or deleted from - * any local list before iput() since it could be deleted in another - * thread once we put the inode (then the local list is corrupted). - */ + * Make sure the inode is either on the global list or deleted + * from any local list before iput() since it could be deleted + * in another thread once we put the inode (then the local list + * is corrupted). + */ spin_lock(&sbinfo->shrinklist_lock); list_move(&info->shrinklist, &sbinfo->shrinklist); sbinfo->shrinklist_len++; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-bdi-initialize-bdi_min_ratio-when-bdi-unregister-fix.patch shmem-fix-a-race-between-shmem_unused_huge_shrink-and-shmem_evict_inode-checkpatch-fixes.patch kthread-add-the-helper-function-kthread_run_on_cpu-fix.patch mm.patch kmemleak-fix-kmemleak-false-positive-report-with-hw-tag-based-kasan-enable-fix.patch mm-remove-redundant-check-about-fault_flag_allow_retry-bit-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-page-table-check-fix.patch mm-mempolicy-convert-from-atomic_t-to-refcount_t-on-mempolicy-refcnt-fix.patch mm-memcg-percpu-account-extra-objcg-space-to-memory-cgroups-fix.patch proc-make-the-proc_create-stubs-static-inlines-fix.patch panic-use-error_report_end-tracepoint-on-warnings-fix.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch sysctl-move-some-boundary-constants-from-sysctlc-to-sysctl_vals-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch