From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Ge Yang <yangge1116@126.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
21cnbao@gmail.com, david@redhat.com,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, liuzixing@hygon.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix kernel NULL pointer dereference when replacing free hugetlb folios
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 07:30:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aDAH7nI8H_JfGExm@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e408146-7c77-4f6d-90e8-bb311d7ab53d@126.com>
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 11:46:51AM +0800, Ge Yang wrote:
> The implementation of alloc_and_dissolve_hugetlb_folio differs between
> kernel 6.6 and kernel 6.15. To facilitate backporting, I'm planning to
> submit another patch based on Oscar Salvador's suggestion.
If the code differs a lot between a stable version and upstream, the way
to go is to submit a specific patch for the stable one that applies
to that tree, e.g: [PATCH 6.6]...
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-23 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-22 3:22 [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix kernel NULL pointer dereference when replacing free hugetlb folios yangge1116
2025-05-22 3:47 ` Muchun Song
2025-05-22 5:34 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-05-22 7:13 ` Muchun Song
2025-05-22 10:13 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-05-22 11:34 ` Ge Yang
2025-05-22 11:49 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-05-22 12:39 ` Muchun Song
2025-05-22 19:32 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-05-23 3:27 ` Muchun Song
2025-05-23 3:46 ` Ge Yang
2025-05-23 3:56 ` Muchun Song
2025-05-23 5:30 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2025-05-23 8:07 ` Ge Yang
2025-05-22 11:50 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-05-26 12:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-26 12:57 ` Ge Yang
2025-05-26 12:59 ` David Hildenbrand
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