Re: Patch "mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:30 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
>     mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert
>
> 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:
>      mm-mmu_notifier-fix-mmget-assert-in-__mmu_interval_n.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.

This patch has no reason to go into the stable trees. It just makes an
assertion stricter (mm_users>0 implies mm_count>0). It only has an
effect if your kernel is horrendously broken anyway.

Please take it out of the stable queue.



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