Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/191] 5.4.8-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-01-03T15:45:22Z

On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 04:29:56PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 03:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > -ENOENT is what you get when hugetlbfs is not mounted, so this hints to
> >
> > 8fc312b32b2 mm/hugetlbfs: fix error handling when setting up mounts
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.4.y&id=3f549fb42a39bea3b29c0fc12afee53c4a01bec9
>
> I see that Mike Kravetz suggested not putting this patch into stable in
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/befca227-cb8a-8f47-617d-e3bf9972bfec@oracle.com/
>
> but it was picked through the autosel mechanism later.

So does that mean that Linus's tree shows this LTP failure as well?

This does seem to fix a real issue, as shown by the LTP test noticing
it, so should the error code value be fixed in Linus's tree?

thanks,

greg k-h