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Hi peter:

Do you have any plans to backport this patch[1] to the stable branch of 
the lower version, such as 4.19.y ?
When I try to backport this patch to 5.10.y, I met some KASAN[2] and 
KASLR[3] related issues. Although they were finally solved, there were 
still some detours in the process.

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=97e3d26b5e5f371b3ee223d94dd123e6c442ba80
[2] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f148f3318140035e87decc1214795ff0755757b
[3]

Best Regards,
Tong

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