On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 4:35 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:26:05 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Andrew, does this need to be picked up by stable branches? > > Does it? The changelog doesn't have a clear description of the > user-visible effects of the flaw, which is the guiding light for a > backport? > > There are 2 example scenarios in the changelog that misbehave without this fix, cases where the protection of a memcg that is the target of reclaim is not ignored as it should be. I would think that it needs to be backported to stable releases, unless Roman or any of the other memcg maintainers disagrees.
