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

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:33:52 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][resend] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM,  <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>
> Hi
>
> This is trivial fixes of mempolicy meory corruption issues. There
> are independent patches each ather. and, they don't change userland
> ABIs.
>
> Thanks.
>
> changes from v1: fix some typo of changelogs.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> KOSAKI Motohiro (6):
>   Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle
>     vma->vm_policy linkages"
>   mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing
>   mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()
>   mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
>   mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in
>     alloc_pages_vma()
>   MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry
>
>  MAINTAINERS    |    7 +++
>  mm/mempolicy.c |  151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  mm/shmem.c     |    9 ++--
>  3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

I don't see these patches queued anywhere.  They aren't in linux-next,
mmotm, or Linus' tree.  Did these get dropped?  Is the revert still
needed?

josh
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