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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: fix stale list handling
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:15:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170914141532.9339436e0fb0fd85b99b8dbf@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170914155936.697bf347a00dacee7e7f3778@gmail.com>

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:59:36 +0200 Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fix the situation when clear_bit() is called for page->private before
> the page pointer is actually assigned. While at it, remove work_busy()
> check because it is costly and does not give 100% guarantee anyway.

Does this fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196877 ?  If
so, the bugzilla references and a reported-by should be added.

What are the end-user visible effects of the bug?  Please always
include this info when fixing bugs.

Should this fix be backported into -stable kernels?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-14 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14 13:59 [PATCH] z3fold: fix stale list handling Vitaly Wool
2017-09-14 21:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-09-15  8:34   ` Vitaly Wool

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