The patch titled fix create_write_pipe() error check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fix-create_write_pipe-error-check.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix create_write_pipe() error check From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> The return value of create_write_pipe()/create_read_pipe() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kmod.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/kmod.c~fix-create_write_pipe-error-check kernel/kmod.c --- a/kernel/kmod.c~fix-create_write_pipe-error-check +++ a/kernel/kmod.c @@ -307,14 +307,14 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, return 0; f = create_write_pipe(); - if (!f) - return -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(f)) + return PTR_ERR(f); *filp = f; f = create_read_pipe(f); - if (!f) { + if (IS_ERR(f)) { free_write_pipe(*filp); - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(f); } sub_info.stdin = f; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch fix-create_write_pipe-error-check.patch acpi-fix-single-linked-list-manipulation.patch acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch git-alsa.patch audit-fix-kstrdup-error-check.patch drm-fix-return-value-check.patch git-input.patch input-check-whether-serio-dirver-registration-is-completed.patch ata-fix-platform_device_register_simple-error-check.patch git-mtd.patch gss_spkm3-fix-error-handling-in-module-init.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module-fix.patch git-pcmcia.patch git-watchdog.patch paride-return-proper-error-code.patch futex-init-error-check.patch bit-revese-library.patch crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch video-use-bitrev8.patch net-use-bitrev8.patch net-use-bitrev8-tidy.patch isdn-hisax-use-bitrev8.patch atm-ambassador-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-gigaset-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-fix-missing-unregister_capi_driver.patch fault-injection-documentation-and-scripts.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tidy.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tweaks.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc-failslab-remove-__gfp_highmem-filtering.patch fault-injection-capability-for-alloc_pages.patch fault-injection-capability-for-disk-io.patch fault-injection-process-filtering-for-fault-injection-capabilities.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering-reject-failure-if-any-caller-lies-within-specified-range.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering-kconfig-fix.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup-config_fault_injection-help-text.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html