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

    ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock

to the 3.11-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-msg-drop-msg_unlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

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


>From 4718787d1f626f45ddb239912bc07266b9880044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:26:25 -0700
Subject: ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock

From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>

commit 4718787d1f626f45ddb239912bc07266b9880044 upstream.

There is only one user left, drop this function and just call
ipc_unlock_object() and rcu_read_unlock().

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[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 |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ struct msg_sender {
 
 #define msg_ids(ns)    ((ns)->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS])
 
-#define msg_unlock(msq)                ipc_unlock(&(msq)->q_perm)
-
 static void freeque(struct ipc_namespace *, struct kern_ipc_perm *);
 static int newque(struct ipc_namespace *, struct ipc_params *);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
@@ -278,7 +276,8 @@ static void freeque(struct ipc_namespace
        expunge_all(msq, -EIDRM);
        ss_wakeup(&msq->q_senders, 1);
        msg_rmid(ns, msq);
-       msg_unlock(msq);
+       ipc_unlock_object(&msq->q_perm);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, t, &msq->q_messages, m_list) {
                atomic_dec(&ns->msg_hdrs);


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

queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_by_ptr.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-msg-drop-msg_unlock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-in-shmctl_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-rename-ids-rw_mutex.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmat.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-shmctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-document-general-ipc-locking-scheme.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-drop-shm_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-guard-against-non-existant-vma-in-shmdt-2.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-cleanup-do_shmat-pasta.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-make-shmctl_nolock-lockless.patch
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