On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 08:54:47AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2019-05-02 17:20:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.39 release. > > There are 72 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > let me know. > > > > Responses should be made by Sat 04 May 2019 02:32:17 PM UTC. > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > These do not meet stable criteria afaict: (3-5... I see this is > probably security bug; it would be good to mention in the preparation > patches what is going on because otherwise it is tricky to understand). I do not do "explain why specific patches are applied" because yes, sometimes it is due to security issues that we know about. > ?? 03/72] mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and m -- not sure description is good enough; preparation for later changes? > ?? 04/72] mm: add try_get_page() helper function -- adds unused function > ?? 05/72] mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page r -- over > 100 line limit and depedns on previous patches. get_gate_page() change > not in -rc?.. it is in -next. These are all well-known as solving a public security issue, please see lkml for the details, no need for you to "guess". thanks for the review. greg k-h
