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

KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-08-06T19:32:04Z

On 7/31/2012 8:33 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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 s.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> 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?

Sorry. my fault. yes, it is needed. currently, Some LTP was fail since
Mel's "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" patch.