Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 09:33:06 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:15:33AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:53 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 02:23:09PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Sun 07-01-18 13:44:02, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 11:18 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > On Sun 07-01-18 10:11:15, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:14:22AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 09:45 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > > > 4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > FYI, this broke kdump, or rather the makedumpfile part thereof.
> > > > > > > ?Forward looking wreckage is par for the kdump course, but...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is it also broken in Linus's tree with this patch?  Or is there an
> > > > > > add-on patch that I should apply to 4.14 to resolve this issue there?
> > > > > 
> > > > > This one http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513932498-20350-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
> > > > > I guess.
> > > > 
> > > > That won't unbreak kdump, else master wouldn't be broken. ?I don't care
> > > > deeply, or know if anyone else does, I'm just reporting it because I
> > > > met it and chased it down.
> > > 
> > > OK, I didn't notice that d8cfbbfa0f7 ("mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation
> > > for mem_section") made it in after rc6. I am still wondering why
> > > 83e3c48729 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for
> > > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") made it into the stable tree in the first
> > > place.
> > 
> > It was part of the prep for the KTPI code from what I can tell.  If you
> > think it should be reverted, just let me know and I'll be glad to do so.
> 
> No preference here. ?I have to patch master regardless if I want kdump
> to work while I patiently wait for userspace to get fixed up (either
> that or use time I don't have to go fix it up myself).

I'll stay "bug compatible" for the time being.  If you do fix this up,
can you add a cc: stable tag in your patch so I can pick it up when it
gets merged?

thanks,

greg k-h