From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, baohua@kernel.org,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, david@kernel.org,
dev.jain@arm.com, lance.yang@linux.dev, liam.howlett@oracle.com,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/huge_memory: merge uniform_split_supported() and" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 13:24:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026010206-footprint-impure-82b8@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251230031135.efpejaosso23ekke@master>
On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 03:11:35AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 01:33:25PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> >The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-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>.
> >
> >To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> >
> >git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
> >git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> >git cherry-pick -x 8a0e4bdddd1c998b894d879a1d22f1e745606215
> ># <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
> >git commit -s
> >git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025122925-victory-numeral-2346@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..
> >
> >Possible dependencies:
> >
> >
>
> Hi, Greg
>
> This one is not a fix to some bug.
>
> We found a real bug during the mail discussion, which is
>
> commit cff47b9e39a6abf03dde5f4f156f841b0c54bba0
> Author: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed Nov 19 23:53:02 2025 +0000
>
> mm/huge_memory: fix NULL pointer deference when splitting folio
>
> It looks has been back ported to 6.18.y and 6.12.y.
I do not understand, should this not be applied? Or should it be
applied?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-02 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-29 12:33 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/huge_memory: merge uniform_split_supported() and" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2025-12-30 2:48 ` [PATCH 6.18.y] mm/huge_memory: merge uniform_split_supported() and non_uniform_split_supported() Sasha Levin
2025-12-30 3:11 ` FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/huge_memory: merge uniform_split_supported() and" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree Wei Yang
2026-01-02 12:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-01-03 1:32 ` Wei Yang
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