lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:09:53 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Jerusalimov <wintchester@...il.com>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 75/88] libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations

On Tue 28-03-17 14:31:30, Greg KH wrote:
> 4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Greg, please hold on with this backport. I would like to get
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328124312.GE18241@dhcp22.suse.cz resolved.
So far I believe the patch is simply not needed. I might be wrong but I
would like to hear the explanation first. Using NOIO, NOFS context is
misunderstodd very often and I suspect this is the case here as well.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

Powered by blists - more mailing lists