From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Fei Li <fei1.li@intel.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 13:01:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240404130104.858c02d23216eb82438444d9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bced0912-4e30-4354-93f3-d6075952b5b5@redhat.com>
On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:20:06 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Reported-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
> >> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227122814.3781907-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
> >> Fixes: b1a86e15dc03 ("x86, pat: remove the dependency on 'vm_pgoff' in track/untrack pfn vma routines")
> >> Fixes: 5899329b1910 ("x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3")
> >
> > These are really old. Should we backport this?
>
> I was asking that question myself.
>
> With the reproducer, the worst thing that happens on most systems is the
> warning. On !RAM and with PAT, there could be memory leaks and other
> surprises.
>
> Likely, we should just backport it to stable. Should not be too hard to
> backport to stable kernels I guess/hope.
OK, thanks, I added the cc:stable tag.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-04 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-03 21:21 [PATCH v2 0/3] " David Hildenbrand
2024-04-03 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] [mm-unstable] Revert "mm: move follow_phys to arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c" David Hildenbrand
2024-04-03 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings David Hildenbrand
2024-04-03 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2024-04-04 19:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-04 20:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-04-07 2:08 ` mawupeng
2024-04-03 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: move follow_phys to arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c David Hildenbrand
2024-04-03 22:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings Andrew Morton
2024-04-05 7:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
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