[merged mm-stable] mm-list_lru-lock_list_lru_of_memcg-cannot-return-null-if-skip_empty.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: list_lru: lock_list_lru_of_memcg() cannot return NULL if !skip_empty
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-list_lru-lock_list_lru_of_memcg-cannot-return-null-if-skip_empty.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: mm: list_lru: lock_list_lru_of_memcg() cannot return NULL if !skip_empty
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 16:45:09 -0400

skip_empty is only for the shrinker to abort and skip a list that's empty
or whose cgroup is being deleted.

For list additions and deletions, the cgroup hierarchy is walked upwards
until a valid list_lru head is found, or it will fall back to the node
list.  Acquiring the lock won't fail.  Remove the NULL checks in those
callers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527204757.2544958-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/list_lru.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/list_lru.c~mm-list_lru-lock_list_lru_of_memcg-cannot-return-null-if-skip_empty
+++ a/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -165,8 +165,6 @@ bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru,
 	struct list_lru_one *l;
 
 	l = lock_list_lru_of_memcg(lru, nid, &memcg, false, false);
-	if (!l)
-		return false;
 	if (list_empty(item)) {
 		list_add_tail(item, &l->list);
 		/*
@@ -208,9 +206,8 @@ bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru,
 {
 	struct list_lru_node *nlru = &lru->node[nid];
 	struct list_lru_one *l;
+
 	l = lock_list_lru_of_memcg(lru, nid, &memcg, false, false);
-	if (!l)
-		return false;
 	if (!list_empty(item)) {
 		list_del_init(item);
 		l->nr_items--;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@cmpxchg.org are