Re: [PATCH 0/6][resend] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

Josh Boyer
2012-07-31T12:33:54Z

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Hi
>
> This is trivial fixes of mempolicy meory corruption issues. There
> are independent patches each ather. and, they don't change userland
> ABIs.
>
> Thanks.
>
> changes from v1: fix some typo of changelogs.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> KOSAKI Motohiro (6):
> Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle
> vma->vm_policy linkages"
> mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing
> mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()
> mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
> mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in
> alloc_pages_vma()
> MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry
>
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++
> mm/mempolicy.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> mm/shmem.c | 9 ++--
> 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

I don't see these patches queued anywhere. They aren't in linux-next,
mmotm, or Linus' tree. Did these get dropped? Is the revert still
needed?

josh