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* Re: Patch "mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree
       [not found] <20201026053052.9CB982085B@mail.kernel.org>
@ 2020-10-26  9:25 ` Jann Horn
  2020-10-26 14:21   ` Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jann Horn @ 2020-10-26  9:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sasha Levin, stable; +Cc: stable-commits

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:30 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
>     mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert
>
> to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
>      mm-mmu_notifier-fix-mmget-assert-in-__mmu_interval_n.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.

This patch has no reason to go into the stable trees. It just makes an
assertion stricter (mm_users>0 implies mm_count>0). It only has an
effect if your kernel is horrendously broken anyway.

Please take it out of the stable queue.

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* Re: Patch "mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree
  2020-10-26  9:25 ` Patch "mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert" has been added to the 5.8-stable tree Jann Horn
@ 2020-10-26 14:21   ` Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2020-10-26 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jann Horn; +Cc: stable, stable-commits

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:25:08AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:30 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert
>>
>> to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
>>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>>
>> The filename of the patch is:
>>      mm-mmu_notifier-fix-mmget-assert-in-__mmu_interval_n.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
>>
>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
>This patch has no reason to go into the stable trees. It just makes an
>assertion stricter (mm_users>0 implies mm_count>0). It only has an
>effect if your kernel is horrendously broken anyway.
>
>Please take it out of the stable queue.

Will do.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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