The patch titled Subject: sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereference has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sys_getppid-add-missing-rcu_dereference.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereference In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/timer.c~sys_getppid-add-missing-rcu_dereference kernel/timer.c --- a/kernel/timer.c~sys_getppid-add-missing-rcu_dereference +++ a/kernel/timer.c @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid) int pid; rcu_read_lock(); - pid = task_tgid_vnr(current->real_parent); + pid = task_tgid_vnr(rcu_dereference(current->real_parent)); rcu_read_unlock(); return pid; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.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