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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+4e697fe80a31aa7efe21@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: Fix off-by-one error in hugetlb_vmdelete_list()
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:29:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211229152907.d59ee76dcf1ea28a2356a176@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb2849e-ad6d-11c5-a37d-806a1c62bb3e@oracle.com>

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:52:37 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:

> +Cc Andrew if he wants to take it though his tree.

Sure.

> > 
> > Not sure if this should go to stable@.  It's mostly harmless, and likely
> > nothing more than a minor performance blip when it's not harmless.
> 
> I am also unsure about the need to send to stable.  It is possible automation
> will pick it up and make that decision for us.

Automation shouldn't do that for mm/ patches because we asked.  But fs/
material might sneak through.  But it does appear that -stable
won't need this.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-29 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-28 23:42 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: Fix off-by-one error in hugetlb_vmdelete_list() Sean Christopherson
2021-12-29  3:52 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-12-29 23:29   ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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