linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] Fix crash due to vma_is

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwwY0UUYtyohfd-fnhpd=G3EYTtirfmQHXJ3n7C_PCSJA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:33:55 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] Fix crash due to vma_is_anonymous() false-positives

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:11 AM Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Fix crash found by syzkaller.
>
> Build on top of Linus' changes in 4.18-rc6.
>
> Andrew, could you please drop mm-drop-unneeded-vm_ops-checks-v2.patch for
> now. Infiniband drivers have to be fixed first.

Ack, these look good to me.

We still need to have the rdma people fix up their vma mis-use, but
that's a related, but independent issue.

             Linus