On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 06:39:51AM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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? Yes, I think so. But please postpone it for now. There's regression report on android. > Kirill, if they are, how far back should they go to? Looks like the problem was there forever. Even before vma_is_anonymous() was introduced. -- Kirill A. Shutemov
