The patch titled Subject: mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix Date: Sat Jun 18 11:58:03 AM PDT 2022 reduce scope of `ptep' Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ success: static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk) { - pte_t *ptep; struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->private; unsigned long index; struct swap_iocb *splug = NULL; @@ -208,6 +207,7 @@ static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t * swp_entry_t entry; struct page *page; spinlock_t *ptl; + pte_t *ptep; ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, index, &ptl); pte = *ptep; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-start-tracking-vmas-with-maple-tree-fix.patch damon-convert-__damon_va_three_regions-to-use-the-vma-iterator-fix.patch mm-mmap-use-advanced-maple-tree-api-for-mmap_region-fix-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-remove-the-vma-linked-list-fix-fix.patch mm-remove-the-vma-linked-list-fix-fix-fix.patch mm-handling-non-lru-pages-returned-by-vm_normal_pages-fix.patch mm-shrinkers-introduce-debugfs-interface-for-memory-shrinkers-fix.patch mm-shrinkers-add-scan-interface-for-shrinker-debugfs-fix-fix.patch mm-drop-oom-code-from-exit_mmap-fix-fix.patch mm-add-merging-after-mremap-resize-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-factor-helpers-for-memory_failure_dev_pagemap-fix.patch xfs-support-cow-in-fsdax-mode-fix.patch mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry-fix.patch