The patch titled fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer.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: fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer() From: "Dan Carpenter" <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/posix-timers.c~fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer kernel/posix-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c~fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer +++ a/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_tim return tmr; if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) { kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); - tmr = NULL; + return NULL; } memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t)); return tmr; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.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