Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: use vma_init() to initialize VMAs on stack and data" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:00 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree.

I suspect these three patches from Kirill just need these three
preparatory cleanup patches applied first:

  490fc053865c mm: make vm_area_alloc() initialize core fields
  95faf6992df4 mm: make vm_area_dup() actually copy the old vma data
  3928d4f5ee37 mm: use helper functions for allocating and freeing
vm_area structs

they weren't marked for stable, because they didn't actually change
any semantics (and I thought Kirill's patches would be delayed to the
next merge window).

               Linus