The patch titled
Subject: fork: unshare: remove dead code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fork-unshare-remove-dead-code.patch
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From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fork: unshare: remove dead code
If new_nsproxy is set we will always call switch_task_namespaces and then
set new_nsproxy back to NULL so the reassignment and fall through check
are redundant
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/fork.c~fork-unshare-remove-dead-code kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c~fork-unshare-remove-dead-code
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1792,10 +1792,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long,
exit_sem(current);
}
- if (new_nsproxy) {
+ if (new_nsproxy)
switch_task_namespaces(current, new_nsproxy);
- new_nsproxy = NULL;
- }
task_lock(current);
@@ -1819,9 +1817,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long,
task_unlock(current);
}
- if (new_nsproxy)
- put_nsproxy(new_nsproxy);
-
bad_unshare_cleanup_fd:
if (new_fd)
put_files_struct(new_fd);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
drivers-message-fusion-mptscsihc-missing-break.patch
binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data.patch
binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data-checkpatch-fixes.patch
fork-unshare-remove-dead-code.patch
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