From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]:37975 "EHLO mail-it0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752219AbdGCLOR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 07:14:17 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f44.google.com with SMTP id k192so54541549ith.1 for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:14:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170703084439.GC11757@kroah.com> References: <20170703084439.GC11757@kroah.com> From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 12:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [STABLE REQ] mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected huge vmap mappings To: Greg KH Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Mark Brown , Mark Rutland , Laura Abbott , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 3 July 2017 at 09:44, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:36:46PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Please consider >> >> 029c54b09599 mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected >> huge vmap mappings >> >> for inclusion into the v4.9 and v4.11 stable trees. It prevents >> crashes on arm64 that may occur after commit 324420bf91f6 ("arm64: add >> support for ioremap() block mappings") was merged for v4.6. > > Does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree, can you provide a backport for it > there? > Done. Regards, Ard. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 12:14:16 +0100 Subject: [STABLE REQ] mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected huge vmap mappings In-Reply-To: <20170703084439.GC11757@kroah.com> References: <20170703084439.GC11757@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 3 July 2017 at 09:44, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:36:46PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Please consider >> >> 029c54b09599 mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected >> huge vmap mappings >> >> for inclusion into the v4.9 and v4.11 stable trees. It prevents >> crashes on arm64 that may occur after commit 324420bf91f6 ("arm64: add >> support for ioremap() block mappings") was merged for v4.6. > > Does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree, can you provide a backport for it > there? > Done. Regards, Ard.