From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38854 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728152AbeHVM14 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 08:27:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:03:53 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Hugh Dickins 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 Message-ID: <20180822090353.GA32119@kroah.com> References: <153442045083102@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 . > > 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