The patch titled
     Subject: futex: avoid kernel taint caused by get_robust_list
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged

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From: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Subject: futex: avoid kernel taint caused by get_robust_list

Commit ec0c4274e33c0373e4 ("futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated")
added these two WARN_ONCE calls.

However, WARN_ONCE taints the kernel, and we shouldn't be allowing any
user who wanders by to do this.  For example, the system fuzzer "trinity"
uses the tainted state as a metric for when to stop, assuming that it has
caused significant wreckage (and indeed that tool is what actually led me
to this change).

The ability to deprecate this code has been called into question[1], but
if that remains to be finalized, then making this change in the interim
seems to make sense.

[1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.0/01081.html

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>    [3.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 kernel/futex.c        |    2 +-
 kernel/futex_compat.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/futex.c~futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list 
kernel/futex.c
--- a/kernel/futex.c~futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list
+++ a/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2472,7 +2472,7 @@ 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");
+       printk_once(KERN_WARNING "deprecated: get_robust_list will be deleted 
in 2013.\n");
 
        rcu_read_lock();
 
diff -puN 
kernel/futex_compat.c~futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list 
kernel/futex_compat.c
--- a/kernel/futex_compat.c~futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list
+++ a/kernel/futex_compat.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ 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");
+       printk_once(KERN_WARNING "deprecated: get_robust_list will be deleted 
in 2013.\n");
 
        rcu_read_lock();
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

linux-next.patch
compiler-gcc4h-reorder-macros-based-upon-gcc-ver.patch
compiler-gcch-add-gcc-recommended-gcc_version-macro.patch
compiler-gcc34h-use-gcc_version-macro.patch
compiler-gcc4h-bugh-remove-duplicate-macros.patch
bugh-fix-build_bug_on-macro-in-__checker__.patch
bugh-prevent-double-evaulation-of-in-build_bug_on.patch
bugh-make-build_bug_on-generate-compile-time-error.patch
compilerh-bugh-prevent-double-error-messages-with-build_bug_on.patch
bugh-compilerh-introduce-compiletime_assert-build_bug_on_msg.patch
inotify-remove-broken-mask-checks-causing-unmount-to-be-einval.patch
time-dont-inline-export_symbol-functions.patch
dca-convert-to-idr_alloc.patch

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