The patch titled alloc_uid: cleanup has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is alloc_uid-cleanup.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: alloc_uid: cleanup From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Use kmem_cache_zalloc(), remove large amounts of initialsiation code and ifdeffery. Note: this assumes that memset(*atomic_t, 0) correctly initialises the atomic_t. This is true for all present archtiectures and if it becomes false for a future architecture then we'll need to make large changes all over the place anyway. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/user.c | 18 ++---------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/user.c~alloc_uid-cleanup kernel/user.c --- a/kernel/user.c~alloc_uid-cleanup +++ a/kernel/user.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ void free_uid(struct user_struct *up) local_irq_restore(flags); } -struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid) +struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid) { struct hlist_head *hashent = uidhashentry(ns, uid); struct user_struct *up, *new; @@ -371,26 +371,12 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct us spin_unlock_irq(&uidhash_lock); if (!up) { - new = kmem_cache_alloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + new = kmem_cache_zalloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) goto out_unlock; new->uid = uid; atomic_set(&new->__count, 1); - atomic_set(&new->processes, 0); - atomic_set(&new->files, 0); - atomic_set(&new->sigpending, 0); -#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER - atomic_set(&new->inotify_watches, 0); - atomic_set(&new->inotify_devs, 0); -#endif -#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE - new->mq_bytes = 0; -#endif - new->locked_shm = 0; -#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS - new->uid_keyring = new->session_keyring = NULL; -#endif if (sched_create_user(new) < 0) goto out_free_user; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch lib-swiotlbc-avoid-endless-loops-fix.patch git-x86.patch arch-x86-kernel-ptracec-fix-defined-but-unused-warnings.patch git-kgdb-light.patch git-acpi.patch git-acpi-fixup.patch acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200.patch git-alsa-tiwai.patch cifs-suppress-warning.patch revert-gregkh-driver-video-add-the-go7007-driver.patch pm-make-wakeup-flags-available-whenever-config_pm-is-set-checkpatch-fixes.patch git-drm.patch git-dvb.patch drivers-media-video-pvrusb2-pvrusb2-sysfsc-fix-printk-warnings.patch drivers-media-video-soc_camerac-reads-return-size_t.patch git-hwmon.patch git-gfs2-nmw.patch 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