Re: Please add commit 145e1a71e090 to stable

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 01:03:48PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

Please add 4.17 commit 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8 ("mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()") to the 4.16, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 3.18 and 3.2 stable kernel trees.

Two things happened after I'd sent it to Andrew without a stable tag:

1. Ivan posted an equivalent patch: after painstaking bisection, he had found the fixed commit to be what was causing strange blocking (surprising to the rest of us, we had imagined it just suboptimal).
2. The fixed commit arrived in five stable kernel releases (presumably arriving there by auto selection: which will in due course pick up this fix to it, but I don't know its cadence).

Thanks for letting us know, now queued up for 4.16, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18. 3.2 is now end-of-life, but 3.16 is still alive, Ben can take care of that.

thanks,

greg k-h