The patch titled Subject: mmap: find_vma: remove the WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm) check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mmap-find_vma-remove-the-warn_on_oncemm-check.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mmap: find_vma: remove the WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm) check Remove the WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm) check as the comment suggested. Kernel code calls find_vma only when it is absolutely sure that the mm_struct arg to it is non-NULL. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mmap-find_vma-remove-the-warn_on_oncemm-check mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mmap-find_vma-remove-the-warn_on_oncemm-check +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -1933,9 +1933,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct m { struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm)) /* Remove this in linux-3.6 */ - return NULL; - /* Check the cache first. */ /* (Cache hit rate is typically around 35%.) */ vma = mm->mmap_cache; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch ipvs-change-type-of-netns_ipvs-sysctl_sync_qlen_max.patch mm-introduce-common-help-functions-to-deal-with-reserved-managed-pages.patch mmkexec-use-common-help-functions-to-free-reserved-pages.patch mmap-find_vma-remove-the-warn_on_oncemm-check.patch kexec-fix-wrong-types-of-some-local-variables.patch kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic.patch kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic-fix.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