Re: [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments

Greg KH
2009-01-30T05:59:14Z

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:08:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
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> > Just to confirm. This patch also appear to fix the immediate issue for us.
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> Ok, I ended up committing it.
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> I didn't do the whole "Cc: stable@kernel.org" thing, because maybe the
> non-cleanup version is less controversial for stable, but I decided that
> there's no way I don't want the cleanup done in mainline kernel, and if we
> end up needing a few VM_IO's added, I think it's worth it. Even after -rc3
> (since I suspend we won't actually need them).

Which version was the "non-cleanup" version that should be added to the
stable trees?

The commit you did make, de33c8db5910cda599899dd431cc30d7c1018cbf,
seemed pretty "tiny" to me.

confused,

greg k-h