The patch titled pid: Implement ns_of_pid (update) has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was pid-implement-ns_of_pid-update.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into pid-implement-ns_of_pid.patch The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pid: Implement ns_of_pid (update) From: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> - Add a note in function header of ns_of_pid() re: NULL pid. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pid.h | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/pid.h~pid-implement-ns_of_pid-update include/linux/pid.h --- a/include/linux/pid.h~pid-implement-ns_of_pid-update +++ a/include/linux/pid.h @@ -122,8 +122,15 @@ int next_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pi extern struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns); extern void free_pid(struct pid *pid); -/* ns_of_pid returns the pid namespace in which the specified - * pid was allocated. +/* + * ns_of_pid() returns the pid namespace in which the specified pid was + * allocated. + * + * NOTE: + * ns_of_pid() is expected to be called for a process (task) that has + * an attached 'struct pid' (see attach_pid(), detach_pid()) i.e @pid + * is expected to be non-NULL. If @pid is NULL, caller should handle + * the resulting NULL pid-ns. */ static inline struct pid_namespace *ns_of_pid(struct pid *pid) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch pid-implement-ns_of_pid.patch pid-implement-ns_of_pid-update.patch pid-generalize-task_active_pid_ns.patch mqueue-fix-si_pid-value-in-mqueue-do_notify.patch vmcore-remove-saved_max_pfn-check.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