Re: [PATCHv4 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: fixup crash during uevent handling

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:49:57 +0200 Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:

> On 7/29/25 22:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:46:33 +0200 Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org> wrote:
> > be needed in earlier kernels?
> > 
> > IOW, if we wish to fix this crash in earlier kernels, I really cant use
> > this series as presented.  For now I'll add it to mm-new to get it a bit
> > of exposure while we decide what to do.
> > 
> > 
> And here's me who thought we were doing upstream work precisely to
> _not_ having to do backports :-)

Yeah, well, maybe others aren't as keen on caring for -stable but I do
think it's part of our role as kernel maintainers (as opposed to
"developers"?).  And as a large number of MM developers work at
organizations which use and ship older kernel releases, I assume
they're on board with that!

> I see if we can roll patch 1&2 into one; guess I'll need to do it
> anyway for our kernel.

You too!

Thanks.