The quilt patch titled Subject: ipc/msg: replace one-element array with flexible array member has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ipc/msg: replace one-element array with flexible array member Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:58:22 +0200 Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array member in the struct compat_msgbuf. There are no binary differences after this conversion. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240930195824.153648-2-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Sun, Jiebin" <jiebin.sun@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/msg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/ipc/msg.c~ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member +++ a/ipc/msg.c @@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(msgsnd, int, msqid, stru struct compat_msgbuf { compat_long_t mtype; - char mtext[1]; + char mtext[]; }; long compat_ksys_msgsnd(int msqid, compat_uptr_t msgp, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx are mailmap-add-entry-for-thorsten-blum.patch mm-show_mem-use-str_yes_no-helper-in-show_free_areas.patch