linux-kernel - Re: [Stable-review] [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:52:01 +1000
From:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable-review@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:43:33 +0200, you wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:34:55PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:47:29 -0700, you wrote:
>> 
>> >On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:12:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Machine is running, but there's a lot of these in the dmesg:
>> >> >
>> >> > WARNING: at include/linux/security.h:1826 acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0()
>> >> 
>> >> That would seem to be because of the lack of commit 05fa199d45c in
>> >> 2.6.27. It got marked for stable, but probably never went so far back
>> >> as 2.6.27.
>> >
>> >Yup, I didn't include it there.  Grant, if you add that, does the
>> >warning go away?
>> 
>> I'm sorry, no idea at all how to cherry pick that, I don't know git :( 
>> 
>> Google brings up this thread but not that commit, point me at it and 
>> I'll try it.  
>
>Simply apply this patch (even by hand) :
>
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=05fa199d45c
>
>It solved the warnings for me.

Thanks Willy, got:

grant@...tree:~/linux/linux-2.6.27.52-rc1b$ patch -p1 < ../patch-05fa199d45c
patching file mm/mmap.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1573 (offset -2 lines).

Compiling. . . 

Yup, works for me :)

  http://bugsplatter.id.au/kernel/boxen/deltree/dmesg-2.6.27.52-rc1b.gz

Cheers,
Grant.
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