From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx148.postini.com [74.125.245.148]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA35D6B005D for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qady1 with SMTP id y1so1368582qad.14 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:40:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50201BB5.9050005@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <1339406250-10169-1-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> <50201BB5.9050005@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:40:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][resend] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet From: Josh Boyer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KOSAKI Motohiro 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 On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > 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. The series still isn't queued anywhere. Are you planning on resending it again, or should it get picked up in a particular tree? josh -- 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