On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:52 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
It shouldn't.
The pipe buffer accounting and soft limits that introduced the whole
"limp along with limited pipe buffers" behavior that this fixes was
introduced by
> Fixes: 759c01142a ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")
..which made it into 4.5.
So 4.4 is unaffected and doesn't want this patch.
Linus
