linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 139/140] mm/memory.c: fix a huge pud insertion race during faulting

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Message-ID: <20191216184407.GA2411653@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:44:07 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 139/140] mm/memory.c: fix a huge pud insertion race
 during faulting

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:36:57PM +0000, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Greg, Sasha
> 
> On 12/16/19 7:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 625110b5e9dae9074d8a7e67dd07f821a053eed7 ]
> >
> 
> Just repeating to make sure it's dropped, since it re-appeared again.
> 
> Could we please drop this patch from -stable for now. I'll re-nominate
> for stable with the correct dependencies when it's seen some more
> testing. It's depending on another patch and it's touching a code path
> we definitely don't want to break with unforeseen corner-cases.

Ugh, somehow Sasha added this one back in :(

I'll go drop it again, thanks for noticing and letting me know.

greg k-h