[nacked] ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null.patch removed from -mm tree

[nacked] ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm]

Subject: [nacked] ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null.patch removed from -mm tree
To: sasikanth.v19@gmail.com,dledford@redhat.com,jlayton@redhat.com,manfred@colorfullife.com,vdavydov@parallels.com,mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:02:52 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: ipc/mq: do not validate queue attributes default/ceiling value if the user passed attr==NULL
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null.patch

This patch was dropped because it was nacked

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From: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Subject: ipc/mq: do not validate queue attributes default/ceiling value if the user passed attr==NULL

The kernel should not validate queue attributes default/ceiling value
while creating a mqueue, if user passed attr as NULL.  Otherwise in the
worst case if the validation fails then sys_mq_open returns
-EINVAL/-EOVERFLOW which will leave the user clueless about the reason for
the failure.

Signed-off-by: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 ipc/mqueue.c |   10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff -puN ipc/mqueue.c~ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null ipc/mqueue.c
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c~ipc-mq-do-not-validate-queue-attributes-default-ceiling-value-if-the-user-passed-attr==null
+++ a/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -741,16 +741,6 @@ static struct file *do_create(struct ipc
 			return ERR_PTR(ret);
 		/* store for use during create */
 		path->dentry->d_fsdata = attr;
-	} else {
-		struct mq_attr def_attr;