On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:10:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:00 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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). Ok, so are these even needed now? Kirill, if they are, how far back should they go to? thanks, greg k-h
