Re: Patch "khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 06:32:26AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
> > 
> > to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> Please hold this one back for the moment: we shall want it, but syzbot
> detected one place where it can lead to a VM_BUG_ON_MM().  The fix to
> that is currently in Andrew's tree, but not yet in Linus's - when it
> gets there, I'll send you its git commit id in reply to this mail.
> 
> This patch failed to apply to earlier releases: I'll send the fixup for
> those at that time.  (Fixups for another patch to follow later today.)

Now dropped, thanks!

greg k-h



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