The patch titled proc: remove useless check on symlink removal has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: proc: remove useless check on symlink removal From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> proc symlinks always have valid ->data containing destination of symlink. No need to check it on removal -- proc_symlink() already done it. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/generic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal fs/proc/generic.c --- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal +++ a/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ void free_proc_entry(struct proc_dir_ent release_inode_number(ino); - if (S_ISLNK(de->mode) && de->data) + if (S_ISLNK(de->mode)) kfree(de->data); kfree(de); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxx are origin.patch single_open-seq_release-leak-diagnostics.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