linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap

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Message-Id: <20241023032547.1c73092187c85782bd9bd3c6@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:25:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, "Liam R . Howlett"
 <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn
 <jannh@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus
 Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap_region() and
 refactor

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:22:36 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:40:51 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > After this we go further, refactoring the code, placing it in mm/vma.c in
> > order to make it eventually userland testable, and significantly
> > simplifying the logic to avoid this issue arising in future.
> 
> I'm not sure that patches 4-8 are strictly 6.12 material.  What's the
> thinking here?
> 

A downside to merging all 8 patches into 6.12-rcX is that when -stable
takes patches 1-4, they will have had negligible testing without the
presence of patches 5-8.  Patches 5-8 might accidentally fix
something..