The patch titled Subject: argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/argv_split.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN lib/argv_split.c~argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix lib/argv_split.c --- a/lib/argv_split.c~argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix +++ a/lib/argv_split.c @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(argv_free); * considered to be a single argument separator. The returned array * is always NULL-terminated. Returns NULL on memory allocation * failure. + * + * The source string at `str' may be undergoing concurrent alteration via + * userspace sysctl activity (at least). The argv_split() implementation + * attempts to handle this gracefully by taking a local copy to work on. */ char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch printk-provide-a-wake_up_klogd-off-case-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-total-hugetlbfs-pages-count-when-memory-overcommit-accouting-fix.patch mips-define-kvm_user_mem_slots.patch timer_list-convert-timer-list-to-be-a-proper-seq_file.patch timer_list-convert-timer-list-to-be-a-proper-seq_file-v3-fix.patch loop-cleanup-partitions-when-detaching-loop-device-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm.patch mm-shmemc-remove-an-ifdef.patch xen-tmem-enable-xen-tmem-shim-to-be-built-loaded-as-a-module-fix.patch memcg-relax-memcg-iter-caching-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-make-snapshotting-pages-for-stable-writes-a-per-bio-operation-fix.patch mm-make-snapshotting-pages-for-stable-writes-a-per-bio-operation-fix-fix.patch include-linux-mmzoneh-cleanups.patch include-linux-mmzoneh-cleanups-fix.patch drop_caches-add-some-documentation-and-info-messsge.patch memcg-debugging-facility-to-access-dangling-memcgs-fix.patch kernel-smpc-cleanups.patch early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3-fix.patch include-linux-printkh-include-stdargh.patch get_maintainer-use-filename-only-regex-match-for-tegra-fix.patch argv_split-teach-it-to-handle-mutable-strings-fix.patch epoll-trim-epitem-by-one-cache-line-on-x86_64-fix.patch binfmt_elfc-use-get_random_int-to-fix-entropy-depleting.patch rtc-ds1307-long-block-operations-bugfix.patch hfsplus-fix-warnings-in-fs-hfsplus-bfindc-in-function-hfs_find_1st_rec_by_cnid-fix.patch usermodehelper-export-_exec-and-_setup-functions-fix.patch kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic-fix.patch kernel-pidc-improve-flow-of-a-loop-inside-alloc_pidmap-fix.patch pid_namespacec-h-simplify-defines-fix.patch drivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32-fix.patch aio-kiocb_cancel.patch wait-add-wait_event_hrtimeout.patch aio-use-cancellation-list-lazily.patch aio-give-shared-kioctx-fields-their-own-cachelines.patch generic-dynamic-per-cpu-refcounting.patch aio-dont-include-aioh-in-schedh.patch aio-kill-ki_retry.patch block-aio-batch-completion-for-bios-kiocbs.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix-fix-fix.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.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