From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, graff.yang@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
lethal@linux-sh.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, gerg@snapgear.com,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:01:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090924180128.1fa8c0d8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8852.1253839157@redhat.com>
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:39:17 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > > Note that this fix does the following commit differently:
> > >
> > > commit a190887b58c32d19c2eee007c5eb8faa970a69ba
> > > Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> > > Date: Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
> > > nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
> >
> > I don't understand what you're saying here.
>
> Sorry, I was attempting to point out that this appears to revert some of that
> patch - whilst this is true, it then implements the fix differently.
>
OK.
And what are your opinions on the -stable desirability?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 14:13 [PATCH] NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly David Howells
2009-09-24 19:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-24 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-25 0:39 ` David Howells
2009-09-25 1:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-25 1:17 ` David Howells
2009-09-25 0:43 ` Paul Mundt
2009-09-25 4:39 ` graff yang
2009-09-25 8:24 ` David Howells
2009-09-25 11:05 ` graff yang
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