The patch titled partitions: use kasprintf has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was partitions-use-kasprintf.patch This patch was dropped because make_block_name() got deleted in Greg's driver tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: partitions: use kasprintf From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Use kasprintf instead of kmalloc()-strcpy()-strcat(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/partitions/check.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~partitions-use-kasprintf fs/partitions/check.c --- a/fs/partitions/check.c~partitions-use-kasprintf +++ a/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -409,16 +409,11 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, static char *make_block_name(struct gendisk *disk) { char *name; - static char *block_str = "block:"; - int size; char *s; - size = strlen(block_str) + strlen(disk->disk_name) + 1; - name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "block:%s", disk->disk_name); if (!name) return NULL; - strcpy(name, block_str); - strcat(name, disk->disk_name); /* ewww... some of these buggers have / in name... */ s = strchr(name, '/'); if (s) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are git-net.patch git-battery.patch fs-use-hlist_unhashed.patch partitions-use-kasprintf.patch fs-use-list_for_each_entry_reverse-and-kill-sb_entry.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