On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 08:54:47AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Thu 2019-05-02 17:20:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.39 release. There are 72 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sat 04 May 2019 02:32:17 PM UTC. Anything received after that time might be too late.
These do not meet stable criteria afaict: (3-5... I see this is probably security bug; it would be good to mention in the preparation patches what is going on because otherwise it is tricky to understand).
I do not do "explain why specific patches are applied" because yes, sometimes it is due to security issues that we know about.
?? 03/72] mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and m -- not sure description is good enough; preparation for later changes? ?? 04/72] mm: add try_get_page() helper function -- adds unused function ?? 05/72] mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page r -- over 100 line limit and depedns on previous patches. get_gate_page() change not in -rc?.. it is in -next.
These are all well-known as solving a public security issue, please see lkml for the details, no need for you to "guess".
thanks for the review.
greg k-h