The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: shmem: remove duplicate error validation has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-shmem-remove-duplicate-error-validation.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: shmem: remove duplicate error validation Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:44:19 +0800 Remove duplicate error code checks for 'start' and 'end', as the get_order_from_str() will only return -EINVAL if the cmdline string is configured incorrectly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dfadaba4c8b24c5ae1467fe8b6744b654c65ec91.1738918357.git.baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-remove-duplicate-error-validation +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -5664,19 +5664,19 @@ static int __init setup_thp_shmem(char * THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT); } - if (start == -EINVAL) { + if (start < 0) { pr_err("invalid size %s in thp_shmem boot parameter\n", start_size); goto err; } - if (end == -EINVAL) { + if (end < 0) { pr_err("invalid size %s in thp_shmem boot parameter\n", end_size); goto err; } - if (start < 0 || end < 0 || start > end) + if (start > end) goto err; nr = end - start + 1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are