From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60884 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933275AbeGJQyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:54:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:54:40 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG Message-ID: <20180710165440.GA9402@kroah.com> References: <20180710164937.i5hr6xjqashzi7zw@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180710164937.i5hr6xjqashzi7zw@linutronix.de> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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