On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:10:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:00 AM gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree.
I suspect these three patches from Kirill just need these three preparatory cleanup patches applied first:
490fc053865c mm: make vm_area_alloc() initialize core fields 95faf6992df4 mm: make vm_area_dup() actually copy the old vma data 3928d4f5ee37 mm: use helper functions for allocating and freeing vm_area structs
they weren't marked for stable, because they didn't actually change any semantics (and I thought Kirill's patches would be delayed to the next merge window).
Ok, so are these even needed now? Kirill, if they are, how far back should they go to?
thanks,
greg k-h