From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx166.postini.com [74.125.245.166]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68DA36B0044 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:31:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50201BB5.9050005@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:32:05 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][resend] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet References: <1339406250-10169-1-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: jwboyer@gmail.com Cc: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@google.com, davej@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de, cl@linux.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com On 7/31/2012 8:33 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, wrote: >> From: KOSAKI Motohiro >> >> Hi >> >> This is trivial fixes of mempolicy meory corruption issues. There >> are independent patches each ather. and, they don't change userland >> ABIs. >> >> Thanks. >> >> changes from v1: fix some typo of changelogs s. >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> KOSAKI Motohiro (6): >> Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle >> vma->vm_policy linkages" >> mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing >> mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() >> mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() >> mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in >> alloc_pages_vma() >> MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry >> >> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++ >> mm/mempolicy.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- >> mm/shmem.c | 9 ++-- >> 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) > > I don't see these patches queued anywhere. They aren't in linux-next, > mmotm, or Linus' tree. Did these get dropped? Is the revert still > needed? Sorry. my fault. yes, it is needed. currently, Some LTP was fail since Mel's "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" patch. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org