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These patches include few backported fixes for the 4.4 stable tree. I would appreciate if you could kindly consider including them in the next release.
Ajay
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[Changes from v3]: - Dropped [Patch v3 8/8] [2] as patches 1-7 are independent from patch 8 and patch 8 may require more work.
[Changes from v2]: Merged following changes from Vlastimil's series [1]: - Added page_ref_count() in [Patch v3 5/8] - Added missing refcount overflow checks on x86 and s390 [Patch v3 5/8] - Added [Patch v3 8/8] - Removed 7aef4172c795 i.e. [Patch v2 3/8]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20191108093814.16032-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/1576529149-14269-9-git-send-email-akaher@vmwa... ---
[PATCH v4 1/7]: Backporting of upstream commit f958d7b528b1: mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit
[PATCH v4 2/7]: Backporting of upstream commit 88b1a17dfc3e: mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function
[PATCH v4 3/7]: Backporting of upstream commit a3e328556d41: mm, gup: remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages
[PATCH v4 4/7]: Backporting of upstream commit d63206ee32b6: mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages
[PATCH v4 5/7]: Backporting of upstream commit 8fde12ca79af: mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount
[PATCH v4 6/7]: Backporting of upstream commit 7bf2d1df8082: pipe: add pipe_buf_get() helper
[PATCH v4 7/7]: Backporting of upstream commit 15fab63e1e57: fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get