From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:25:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241023032547.1c73092187c85782bd9bd3c6@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241023032236.c7a4f842b7a71c0e492bf322@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:22:36 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:40:51 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > After this we go further, refactoring the code, placing it in mm/vma.c in
> > order to make it eventually userland testable, and significantly
> > simplifying the logic to avoid this issue arising in future.
>
> I'm not sure that patches 4-8 are strictly 6.12 material. What's the
> thinking here?
>
A downside to merging all 8 patches into 6.12-rcX is that when -stable
takes patches 1-4, they will have had negligible testing without the
presence of patches 5-8. Patches 5-8 might accidentally fix
something..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-23 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-22 20:40 Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 1/8] mm: avoid unsafe VMA hook invocation when error arises on mmap hook Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 21:14 ` Jann Horn
2024-10-23 16:56 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 9:11 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 14:22 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 2/8] mm: unconditionally close VMAs on error Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 21:15 ` Jann Horn
2024-10-23 17:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 9:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 16:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 14:26 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 14:41 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 3/8] mm: refactor map_deny_write_exec() Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 21:15 ` Jann Horn
2024-10-23 16:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 9:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 14:30 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-10-23 16:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 4/8] mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path behaviour Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 12:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 14:20 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 17:11 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 15:02 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 5/8] tools: testing: add additional vma_internal.h stubs Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 6/8] mm: insolate mmap internal logic to mm/vma.c Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 7/8] mm: refactor __mmap_region() Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 14:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 15:21 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 17:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 18:12 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 17:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 17:19 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 17:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:40 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 8/8] mm: do not attempt second merge for file-backed VMAs Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 15:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 15:16 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 18:16 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-10-23 18:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-22 20:58 ` [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 8:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23 8:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 10:22 ` Andrew Morton
2024-10-23 10:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-10-23 10:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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