linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12] mm/mmap: correct error handling in mmap

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Message-ID: <3de82936-2546-4bac-b8d7-76fa38811d68@lucifer.local>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 08:36:54 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@....de>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12] mm/mmap: correct error handling in
 mmap_region()

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 02:44:33PM GMT, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:51:07 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'd be surprised if that fixed the reported issue, but yeah this is a bug to
> > > fix anyway.
> >
> > Yeah it seems that you brought about a tear in the space-time continuum and
> > the very moment you said that Bert reported that yes sadly this doesn't fix
> > it :>)
>
> Please resend with a new changelog?

Note that this does fix an absolutely critical issue, just not the one that
triggered this.

I'll resend dropping the reported-by and link tags and adding Vlasta's
reviewed-by but everything else is valid.