From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:34963 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756601AbdJLLjJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:39:09 -0400 Subject: WTF: patch "[PATCH] seccomp: make function __get_seccomp_filter static" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree? To: colin.king@canonical.com, keescook@chromium.org Cc: From: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:39:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1507808358303@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 084f5601c357e4ee59cf0712200d3f5c4710ba40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:26:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] seccomp: make function __get_seccomp_filter static The function __get_seccomp_filter is local to the source and does not need to be in global scope, so make it static. Cleans up sparse warning: symbol '__get_seccomp_filter' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Fixes: 66a733ea6b61 ("seccomp: fix the usage of get/put_seccomp_filter() in seccomp_get_filter()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c index bb3a38005b9c..0ae832e13b97 100644 --- a/kernel/seccomp.c +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ static long seccomp_attach_filter(unsigned int flags, return 0; } -void __get_seccomp_filter(struct seccomp_filter *filter) +static void __get_seccomp_filter(struct seccomp_filter *filter) { /* Reference count is bounded by the number of total processes. */ refcount_inc(&filter->usage);