Re: [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.17

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 09:56, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> We've hit a last-minute snag last week when lkp reported [1] the commit
> "mm, slab: use frozen pages for large kmalloc" exposed a pre-existing bug
> in siw_tcp_sendpages(). Pedro has been fixing it [2] so hopefully that will
> result in a PR soon, which you can pull before this one - or perhaps take
> the fix directly. If that gets stuck for some reason and taking the fix
> later would be unacceptable, I can do another PR with my commit taken out.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202507220801.50a7210-lkp@intel.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250723104123.190518-1-pfalcato@suse.de/

Thanks for the heads up.

I've pulled this, although I don't see the rdma fix in the rdma tree
(the pull for which is still pending in my inbox - I've merged a big
chunk already, people have been very good about sending their pulls
early - thanks)

Let's hope that gets handled soonish - but I'm adding Jason explicitly
to the cc just so that he sees this.

I'll take the fix directly in the worst case, but prefer for things to
go through the normal subsystem maintainer if at all possible, and
this one seems fairly straightforward.

             Linus