This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipc: remove unused functions

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipc-remove-unused-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 9ad66ae65fc8d3e7e3344310fb0aa835910264fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:19 -0700
Subject: ipc: remove unused functions

From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>

commit 9ad66ae65fc8d3e7e3344310fb0aa835910264fe upstream.

We can now drop the msg_lock and msg_lock_check functions along with a
bogus comment introduced previously in semctl_down.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 ipc/msg.c |   25 -------------------------
 ipc/sem.c |    1 -
 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-)

--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -141,31 +141,6 @@ void __init msg_init(void)
                                IPC_MSG_IDS, sysvipc_msg_proc_show);
 }
 
-/*
- * msg_lock_(check_) routines are called in the paths where the rw_mutex
- * is not held.
- */
-static inline struct msg_queue *msg_lock(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int id)
-{
-       struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp = ipc_lock(&msg_ids(ns), id);
-
-       if (IS_ERR(ipcp))
-               return (struct msg_queue *)ipcp;
-
-       return container_of(ipcp, struct msg_queue, q_perm);
-}
-
-static inline struct msg_queue *msg_lock_check(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
-                                               int id)
-{
-       struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp = ipc_lock_check(&msg_ids(ns), id);
-
-       if (IS_ERR(ipcp))
-               return (struct msg_queue *)ipcp;
-
-       return container_of(ipcp, struct msg_queue, q_perm);
-}
-
 static inline struct msg_queue *msq_obtain_object(struct ipc_namespace *ns, 
int id)
 {
        struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp = ipc_obtain_object(&msg_ids(ns), id);
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,6 @@ static int semctl_down(struct ipc_namesp
                                      &semid64.sem_perm, 0);
        if (IS_ERR(ipcp)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(ipcp);
-               /* the ipc lock is not held upon failure */
                goto out_unlock1;
        }
 


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

queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgctl_down.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-remove-unused-functions.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-msgctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-rcu-lock-out-of-ipc_addid.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgsnd.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-introduce-ipc-object-locking-helpers.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgrcv.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-make-msgctl_nolock-lockless.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-locking-out-of-ipcctl_pre_down_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-close-open-coded-spin-lock-calls.patch
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