linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm/kmemleak: Avoid scanning potential huge holes

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Message-ID: <Yfvs5OVKDyWv9HLo@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 14:55:32 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Lang Yu <lang.yu@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/kmemleak: Avoid scanning potential huge holes

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:51:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:29:26 +0000 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> 
> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I think this deserves a cc:stable?  Triggering the soft lockup detector
> is bad behavior.

Yes, I think it should. I guess the problem is not widely spread as
no-one reported it until recently.

-- 
Catalin