linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

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Message-Id: <20120605121711.bb392118.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:17:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com, sivanich@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:02:25 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I'm coming back to this email thread, because I didn't apply the
> series due to all the ongoing discussion and hoping that somebody
> would put changelog fixes and ack notices etc together.
> 
> I'd also really like to know that the people who saw the problem that
> caused the current single patch (that this series reverts) would test
> the whole series. Maybe that happened and I didn't notice it in the
> threads, but I don't think so.
> 
> In fact, right now I'm assuming that the series will eventually come
> to me through Andrew. Andrew, correct?
> 

yup.

I expect there will be a v2 series (at least).  It's unclear what
we'll be doing with [2/6]: whether the patch will be reworked, or
whether Andi misunderstood its effects?
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