linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.8 107/116] hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle migration/hwpoisoned entry

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:02:05 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.8 107/116] hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to
 handle migration/hwpoisoned entry

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 16:08 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> 
> > 3.8.13.27 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> > 
> > commit 4a705fef986231a3e7a6b1a6d3c37025f021f49f upstream.
> > 
> > There's a race between fork() and hugepage migration, as a result we try
> > [...]
> 
> Please drop this one for now: other -stables have carried it, but it
> was found last week to contain a bug of its own, arguably worse than
> what it's fixing.  Naoya-san has done the fix for that, it's in mmotm
> and should make its way to Linus probably this week: so please hold
> this back until that can join it - thanks.
> 
> Hugh

OK, I've dropped it from the 3.8-stable queue, and will watch for the
fix to land.  Thanks very much, Hugh!

 -Kamal


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