On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 05:12:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It sounds like it was incidental and almost accidental that it fixed > that thing, and nobody realized it should perhaps be also moved to > stable. Yes this was incidental. The patch in question fixes an issue in OOM situations where drivers that must allocate memory on each request may lead to dead-lock so it's not really targeted at qat. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt