The quilt patch titled Subject: uprobes: remove unneeded condition has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was uprobes-use-vm_special_mapping-close-functionality-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into uprobes-use-vm_special_mapping-close-functionality.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: uprobes: remove unneeded condition Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:18:25 +0500 The area cannot be NULL as we are getting it through container_of(). Hence there is no need to check its validity. Remove the if condition and return statement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240906101825.177490-1-usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c~uprobes-use-vm_special_mapping-close-functionality-fix +++ a/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -1493,9 +1493,6 @@ static void uprobe_clear_state(const str delayed_uprobe_remove(NULL, vma->vm_mm); mutex_unlock(&delayed_uprobe_lock); - if (!area) - return; - put_page(area->pages[0]); kfree(area->bitmap); kfree(area); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are uprobes-use-vm_special_mapping-close-functionality.patch