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From: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>,
	LinFeng <linfeng23@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: proposing 7df003c85218b5f for v5.5.y, v5.4.y, 4.19.y, v4.14.y, v4.9.y
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:08:22 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2003262103280.20929@er-systems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8350b14e-f708-f2e3-19cd-4e85a4a3235c@redhat.com>

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 26/03/20 18:43, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the following one line commit
>>
>> commit 7df003c85218b5f5b10a7f6418208f31e813f38f
>> Author: Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
>> Date:   Sat Oct 12 11:37:31 2019 +0800
>>
>>     KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running
>>
>>
>> applies cleanly to v5.5.y, v5.4.y, 4.19.y, v4.14.y and v4.9.y.
>>
>> I actually ran into that bug on 4.9.y
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>  Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes, indeed.  It's not a trivial backport though, so I prefer to do it
> manually.  I can help with that, or with reviews if Yanying already has
> patches ready.

Are you sure we are talking about the same commit? Or do I really see 
something wrong here?
It's an one liner. Applies cleanly. Compiles.
Don't know if it fixes the bug, though.


       Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26 17:43 proposing 7df003c85218b5f for v5.5.y, v5.4.y, 4.19.y, v4.14.y, v4.9.y Thomas Voegtle
2020-03-26 18:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-26 20:08   ` Thomas Voegtle [this message]
2020-03-26 20:15     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-27  7:54   ` Greg KH
2020-03-30 13:32   ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running Zhuang Yanying
2020-03-30 13:32     ` [PATCH 1/2] " Zhuang Yanying
2020-03-30 13:40       ` Greg KH
2020-03-30 13:32     ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: special handling of zero_page in some flows Zhuang Yanying
2020-03-30 13:40       ` Greg KH
2020-03-30 13:40     ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running Greg KH

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