The patch titled
Subject: revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated.patch
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From: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Subject: revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
Revert ec0c4274e33c0373e.
get_robust_list() has at least two valid use cases:
1. checkpoint/restore in userspace
2. post mortem analysis
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Darren Hart <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.4.x+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
kernel/futex.c | 2 --
kernel/futex_compat.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN /dev/null /dev/null
diff -puN kernel/futex.c~revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated
kernel/futex.c
--- a/kernel/futex.c~revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated
+++ a/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2472,8 +2472,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(get_robust_list, int, pi
if (!futex_cmpxchg_enabled)
return -ENOSYS;
- WARN_ONCE(1, "deprecated: get_robust_list will be deleted in 2013.\n");
-
rcu_read_lock();
ret = -ESRCH;
diff -puN kernel/futex_compat.c~revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated
kernel/futex_compat.c
--- a/kernel/futex_compat.c~revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated
+++ a/kernel/futex_compat.c
@@ -143,8 +143,6 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(get_robust_list,
if (!futex_cmpxchg_enabled)
return -ENOSYS;
- WARN_ONCE(1, "deprecated: get_robust_list will be deleted in 2013.\n");
-
rcu_read_lock();
ret = -ESRCH;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
linux-next.patch
revert-futex-mark-get_robust_list-as-deprecated.patch
futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list.patch
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