The patch titled ipc: clean up ipc/shm.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipc-clean-up-ipc-shmc.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: ipc: clean up ipc/shm.c From: WANG Cong <wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Use the macro shm_ids(). Remove useless check for a userspace pointer, because copy_to_user() will check it. Some style cleanups. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/shm.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN ipc/shm.c~ipc-clean-up-ipc-shmc ipc/shm.c --- a/ipc/shm.c~ipc-clean-up-ipc-shmc +++ a/ipc/shm.c @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void shm_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *n ns->shm_ctlall = SHMALL; ns->shm_ctlmni = SHMMNI; ns->shm_tot = 0; - ipc_init_ids(&ns->ids[IPC_SHM_IDS]); + ipc_init_ids(&shm_ids(ns)); } /* @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, in if (err) return err; - memset(&shminfo,0,sizeof(shminfo)); + memset(&shminfo, 0, sizeof(shminfo)); shminfo.shmmni = shminfo.shmseg = ns->shm_ctlmni; shminfo.shmmax = ns->shm_ctlmax; shminfo.shmall = ns->shm_ctlall; @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, in if (err) return err; - memset(&shm_info,0,sizeof(shm_info)); + memset(&shm_info, 0, sizeof(shm_info)); down_read(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex); shm_info.used_ids = shm_ids(ns).in_use; shm_get_stat (ns, &shm_info.shm_rss, &shm_info.shm_swp); @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, in shm_info.swap_successes = 0; err = ipc_get_maxid(&shm_ids(ns)); up_read(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex); - if(copy_to_user (buf, &shm_info, sizeof(shm_info))) { + if (copy_to_user(buf, &shm_info, sizeof(shm_info))) { err = -EFAULT; goto out; } @@ -692,11 +692,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, in struct shmid64_ds tbuf; int result; - if (!buf) { - err = -EFAULT; - goto out; - } - if (cmd == SHM_STAT) { shp = shm_lock(ns, shmid); if (IS_ERR(shp)) { @@ -712,7 +707,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, in } result = 0; } - err=-EACCES; + err = -EACCES; if (ipcperms (&shp->shm_perm, S_IRUGO)) goto out_unlock; err = security_shm_shmctl(shp, cmd); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are scripts-improve-the-decodecode-script.patch ipc-clean-up-ipc-shmc.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