About swapoff race patch (was Re: [PATCH] mm, swap: bounds check swap_info accesses to avoid NULL derefs)

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: About swapoff race patch (was Re: [PATCH] mm, swap: bounds check swap_info accesses to avoid NULL derefs)
From: "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:48:29 +0800
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>, <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>, <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <shli@xxxxxxxxxx>, <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <osandov@xxxxxx>, <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>, <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>, <kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20190129222622.440a6c3af63c57f0aa5c09ca@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:26:22 -0800")
References: <20190114222529.43zay6r242ipw5jb@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com> <20190115002305.15402-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> <20190129222622.440a6c3af63c57f0aa5c09ca@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations.patch is very
> stuck so can you please redo this against mainline?

Allow me to be off topic, this patch has been in mm tree for quite some
time, what can I do to help this be merged upstream?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

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