Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:37:55PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> Sorry for not getting sooner to this.  No special backport needed
> for either 4.18 or 4.17: it's just a matter of missed dependencies.
> 
> Dave's original series in Linus's tree goes:
> 
> eac7073aa69a x86/mm/pti: Clear Global bit more aggressively
> 0d83432811f2 mm: Allow non-direct-map arguments to free_reserved_area()
> 9f515cdb411e x86/mm/init: Pass unconverted symbol addresses to free_init_pages()
> 6ea2738e0ca0 x86/mm/init: Add helper for freeing kernel image pages
> c40a56a7818c x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias mapping
> 
> The first already got into 4.18 and 4.17 stable trees, the next three were
> preparatory and not flagged as "Fixes" or "Cc: stable" so got overlooked,
> then this last got separated from them by a late fixup for 32bit by tglx.
> 
> Please just cherry-pick in the missing three before this one: all apply
> cleanly on top of 4.18.4-rc1 or 4.17.18-rc1, they build and boot, and
> I did very minimal testing to check the results are not obviously bad.

Thanks for this information, I've now queued them all up in this way.

greg k-h