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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
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Subject: Re: Please add commit 145e1a71e090 to stable
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 01:03:48PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Please add 4.17 commit 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8
> ("mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()")
> to the 4.16, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 3.18 and 3.2 stable kernel trees.
> 
> Two things happened after I'd sent it to Andrew without a stable tag:
> 1. Ivan posted an equivalent patch: after painstaking bisection, he
>    had found the fixed commit to be what was causing strange blocking
>    (surprising to the rest of us, we had imagined it just suboptimal).
> 2. The fixed commit arrived in five stable kernel releases (presumably
>    arriving there by auto selection: which will in due course pick up
>    this fix to it, but I don't know its cadence).

Thanks for letting us know, now queued up for 4.16, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, and
3.18.  3.2 is now end-of-life, but 3.16 is still alive, Ben can take
care of that.

thanks,

greg k-h