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From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:41:03 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>,
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Hello.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:
> Oleksandr, if you can confirm that it fixes the bug you encountered, it
> would be great.

Sure, I'm checking this possibility with a couple of customers, and
will reply back once I have some inputs on it.

> Greg, Arnd, on your free time, please let me know if there is any issue
> with the patch, and whether you can incorporate it, preferably in 4.16,
> since it is a bug-fix that was encountered by Red-Hat customers.

-- 
Best regards,
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
  Software Maintenance Engineer