linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.18 04/57] vm: add VM_FAULT

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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:16:56 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 04/57] vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 07:49:27PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, nice, I missed that one.
> 
> Ugh, to be fair, I missed it too.
> 
> The alternative to backporting 7fb08eca4527 is to make the backport of
> commit 33692f27597f use "bad_area()" instead of
> "bad_area_nosemaphore()".

33692f27597f already showed up in 3.18.6, so I can't go back and change
that version :(

I'll just queue this one up, thanks.

greg k-h
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