linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:13:06 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 08:35:27AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > How should we proceed with this patch?
> > >
> > 
> > We do want to backport this patch to stable kernels. However shouldn't
> > we wait for this patch to be applied to Linus's tree first.

Yes we will.

> But since Andrew Morton seems to be offline since Jan 11, we don't know
> when this patch will arrive at Linus's tree.

That's fine, we can wait :)

greg k-h