The patch titled r/o bind mounts: Accept passing a mnt NULL pointer to mnt_drop_write() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers-fix.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: r/o bind mounts: Accept passing a mnt NULL pointer to mnt_drop_write() From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> In case of somebody opens a file with dentry_open(dentry, NULL, ...) we don't want to stumble on the NULL pointer mnt in struct file. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/namespace.c~r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers-fix fs/namespace.c --- a/fs/namespace.c~r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers-fix +++ a/fs/namespace.c @@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ void mnt_drop_write(struct vfsmount *mnt int must_check_underflow = 0; struct mnt_writer *cpu_writer; + if (!mnt) + return; + cpu_writer = &get_cpu_var(mnt_writers); spin_lock(&cpu_writer->lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jblunck@xxxxxxx are r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers-fix.patch dont-touch-fs_struct-in-drivers.patch dont-touch-fs_struct-in-usermodehelper.patch remove-path_release_on_umount.patch move-struct-path-into-its-own-header.patch embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt.patch embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt-checkpatch-fixes.patch introduce-path_put.patch use-path_put-in-a-few-places-instead-of-mntdput.patch introduce-path_get.patch use-struct-path-in-fs_struct.patch make-set_fs_rootpwd-take-a-struct-path.patch introduce-path_get-unionfs.patch embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt-unionfs.patch introduce-path_put-unionfs.patch one-less-parameter-to-__d_path.patch one-less-parameter-to-__d_path-checkpatch-fixes.patch d_path-kerneldoc-cleanup.patch d_path-use-struct-path-in-struct-avc_audit_data.patch d_path-use-struct-path-in-struct-avc_audit_data-checkpatch-fixes.patch d_path-make-proc_get_link-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch d_path-make-get_dcookie-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch d_path-make-get_dcookie-use-a-struct-path-argument-checkpatch-fixes.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export-checkpatch-fixes.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_expkey.patch d_path-make-seq_path-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch d_path-make-d_path-use-a-struct-path.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