* [merged mm-stable] selftests-mm-mrelease_test-fix-retry-limit.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-10-24 9:00 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-24 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, vbabka, usama.anjum, surenb, sj, shuah, rppt, mhocko,
ljs, liam, david, brauner, jm5905938, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: selftests/mm: mrelease_test: fix retry limit
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
selftests-mm-mrelease_test-fix-retry-limit.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@gmail.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: mrelease_test: fix retry limit
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:00:27 -0700
mrelease_test doubles the child allocation when process_mrelease() returns
ESRCH.
When size is already MAX_SIZE_MB, the current <= check still allows
another retry, causing the allocation to grow from 1024 MB to 2048 MB.
Use < instead of <= so the largest allocation attempted remains
MAX_SIZE_MB.
LLM used in discovering bug. Changes were made and reviewed manually.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CANOyQmFzsssM_BXHUDrV+UuVD5SZMBmSkg3UQnmw9Ns1PV7GCQ@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 33776141b812 ("selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests")
Signed-off-by: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/mrelease_test.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mrelease_test.c~selftests-mm-mrelease_test-fix-retry-limit
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mrelease_test.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ retry:
* Retry until we succeed or reach MAX_SIZE_MB.
*/
if (errno == ESRCH) {
- retry = (size <= MAX_SIZE_MB);
+ retry = (size < MAX_SIZE_MB);
} else {
waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
ksft_exit_fail_msg("process_mrelease: %s\n", strerror(errno));
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jm5905938@gmail.com are
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