On 8/8/19 12:47 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 08-08-19 09:46:07, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Wed 07-08-19 17:05:33, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>> Li Wang discovered that LTP/move_page12 V2 sometimes triggers SIGBUS
>>> in the kernel-v5.2.3 testing. This is caused by a race between hugetlb
>>> page migration and page fault.
<snip>
>>> Reported-by: Li Wang <liwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Tested-by: Li Wang <liwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Btw. is this worth marking for stable? I haven't seen it triggering
> anywhere but artificial tests. On the other hand the patch is quite
> straightforward so it shouldn't hurt in general.
I don't think this really is material for stable. I added the tag as the
stable AI logic seems to pick up patches whether marked for stable or not.
For example, here is one I explicitly said did not need to go to stable.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/1/165
Ironic to find that commit message in a stable backport.
I'm happy to drop the Fixes tag.
Andrew, can you drop the tag? Or would you like me to resend?
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Mike Kravetz
