From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180710165440.GA9402@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180710164937.i5hr6xjqashzi7zw@linutronix.de>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Upstream commit 28557cc106e6d2aa8b8c5c7687ea9f8055ff3911
>
> The commit c7f26ccfb2c3 ("mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption
> BUG") does not fix a bug but papers over it. The reported and author
> never came back with an explanation nor was the symptom reproduced by
> someone else. The commit was reverted upstream but it made its was to
> the stable tree therefore I ask there for a revert, too.
>
> Please include this patch in the v4.14 stable tree.
It also needs to be in the 4.17.y tree as well, right? Now queued up to
both.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-10 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 16:49 Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-07-10 16:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-07-10 17:58 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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