From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com,
songliubraving@fb.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200819135306.GA3311904@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2008190625060.24442@eggly.anvils>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 06:32:26AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
> >
> > to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > The filename of the patch is:
> > khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
> Please hold this one back for the moment: we shall want it, but syzbot
> detected one place where it can lead to a VM_BUG_ON_MM(). The fix to
> that is currently in Andrew's tree, but not yet in Linus's - when it
> gets there, I'll send you its git commit id in reply to this mail.
>
> This patch failed to apply to earlier releases: I'll send the fixup for
> those at that time. (Fixups for another patch to follow later today.)
Now dropped, thanks!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-19 13:52 UTC|newest]
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2020-08-19 13:32 ` Patch "khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree Hugh Dickins
2020-08-19 13:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-08-22 1:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-22 21:20 ` Sasha Levin
2020-08-23 2:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-24 15:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-26 18:53 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-26 21:46 ` Sasha Levin
2020-08-26 21:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-24 15:29 ` Sasha Levin
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