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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memalloc: fix pointer dereferencing
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:52:40 +0100
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08/01/2019 17:46, Anatoly Burakov:
> The original code was supposed to overwrite the value pointed to
> by the pointer, but the new one is instead overwriting the
> pointer value itself, which has no effect outside that function.
> Fix it by adding a pointer dereference.
> 
> Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
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> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied with below title, thanks:
	mem: fix storing old policy