Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNs

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:54:06AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> When balloon batching is not supported by the hypervisor, the guest
> frame number (GFN) must fit in 32-bit. However, due to a bug, this check
> was mistakenly ignored. In practice, when total RAM is greater than
> 16TB, the balloon does not work currently, making this bug unlikely to
> happen.
> 
> Fixes: ef0f8f112984 ("VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page.")
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Again, no blank line between these things.

Also, please break this up into two different patch series.  One for
4.18-final and one for 4.19-rc1.  You should always split up bugfixes
from new features/cleanups as that is what I have to do when sending
them to Linus.

thanks,

greg k-h



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