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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Shakeel Butt , David Hildenbrand , Mike Rapoport , Michal Hocko , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap , Jann Horn , Pedro Falcato , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org References: <20261015-fix-vma-lock-overflow-v1-1-01beb245d9da@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/16/26 10:19 AM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > It seems likely that you're using AI to generate these review points. Please do > say if you're doing that, thanks. yes, I used an LLM to find the commits I pointed out and check if my reasoning was correct. my bad for not mentioning it. anyway, I reviewed everything and checked that it was correct. [snip] >>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> >> the parity check relies on e5e7fb278e59. before that, mm_lock_seq only >> increments on unlock, so locked values can be odd or even. should this >> be limited to 6.14+, with a note that older trees need a different fix? >> a straight backport of the odd check would ignore write locks taken on >> even cycles. > > I have a plan for older kernels (just make the value 64 bit...) okay, I didn't know. -- cheers, jose a. p-a