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From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:11:13PM +1200, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 05:12:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > It sounds like it was incidental and almost accidental that it fixed
> > that thing, and nobody realized it should perhaps be also moved to
> > stable.
> 
> Yes this was incidental.  The patch in question fixes an issue in
> OOM situations where drivers that must allocate memory on each
> request may lead to dead-lock so it's not really targeted at qat.

Ok, so what commits should I backport to kernels older than 5.10 to
resolve this?

thanks,

greg k-h