From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com,
ak@linux.intel.com, bp@alien8.de, jgross@suse.com,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, jroedel@suse.de, keescook@google.com,
luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:03:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180822090353.GA32119@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1808211618030.1085@eggly.anvils>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:37:55PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
> Sorry for not getting sooner to this. No special backport needed
> for either 4.18 or 4.17: it's just a matter of missed dependencies.
>
> Dave's original series in Linus's tree goes:
>
> eac7073aa69a x86/mm/pti: Clear Global bit more aggressively
> 0d83432811f2 mm: Allow non-direct-map arguments to free_reserved_area()
> 9f515cdb411e x86/mm/init: Pass unconverted symbol addresses to free_init_pages()
> 6ea2738e0ca0 x86/mm/init: Add helper for freeing kernel image pages
> c40a56a7818c x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias mapping
>
> The first already got into 4.18 and 4.17 stable trees, the next three were
> preparatory and not flagged as "Fixes" or "Cc: stable" so got overlooked,
> then this last got separated from them by a late fixup for 32bit by tglx.
>
> Please just cherry-pick in the missing three before this one: all apply
> cleanly on top of 4.18.4-rc1 or 4.17.18-rc1, they build and boot, and
> I did very minimal testing to check the results are not obviously bad.
Thanks for this information, I've now queued them all up in this way.
greg k-h
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2018-08-16 11:54 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree gregkh
2018-08-21 23:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2018-08-22 9:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
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