Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754989AbZA3F7O (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:59:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751358AbZA3F67 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:58:59 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35563 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbZA3F66 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:58:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:56:39 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Maksim Yevmenkin , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-kernel , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , will@crowder-design.com, Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments Message-ID: <20090130055639.GA30950@suse.de> References: <1233259410.2315.75.camel@lts-notebook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 29 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:08:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > > > > Just to confirm. This patch also appear to fix the immediate issue for us. > > Ok, I ended up committing it. > > I didn't do the whole "Cc: stable@kernel.org" thing, because maybe the > non-cleanup version is less controversial for stable, but I decided that > there's no way I don't want the cleanup done in mainline kernel, and if we > end up needing a few VM_IO's added, I think it's worth it. Even after -rc3 > (since I suspend we won't actually need them). Which version was the "non-cleanup" version that should be added to the stable trees? The commit you did make, de33c8db5910cda599899dd431cc30d7c1018cbf, seemed pretty "tiny" to me. confused, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/