- exit-signals-use-of-uninitialized-field-notify_count.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     exit-signals-use-of-uninitialized-field-notify_count.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
From: Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@NerdBox.Net>

task->signal->notify_count is only initialized if
task->signal->group_exit_task is not NULL.  Reorder a conditional so
that uninitialised memory is not used.  Found by Valgrind.

Signed-off-by: Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@nerdbox.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/exit.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/exit.c~exit-signals-use-of-uninitialized-field-notify_count kernel/exit.c
--- a/kernel/exit.c~exit-signals-use-of-uninitialized-field-notify_count
+++ a/kernel/exit.c
@@ -918,8 +918,8 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_stru
 
 	/* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for us */
 	if (thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
-	    tsk->signal->notify_count < 0 &&
-	    tsk->signal->group_exit_task)
+	    tsk->signal->group_exit_task &&
+	    tsk->signal->notify_count < 0)
 		wake_up_process(tsk->signal->group_exit_task);
 
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from vandebo-lkml@NerdBox.Net are