Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 7 authors, 2012-08-15

Re: [PATCH 0/6][resend] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

From: Josh Boyer <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-31 12:33:54
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM,  [off-list ref] wrote:
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <redacted>

Hi

This is trivial fixes of mempolicy meory corruption issues. There
are independent patches each ather. and, they don't change userland
ABIs.

Thanks.

changes from v1: fix some typo of changelogs.

-----------------------------------------------
KOSAKI Motohiro (6):
  Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle
    vma->vm_policy linkages"
  mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing
  mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()
  mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
  mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in
    alloc_pages_vma()
  MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry

 MAINTAINERS    |    7 +++
 mm/mempolicy.c |  151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 mm/shmem.c     |    9 ++--
 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
I don't see these patches queued anywhere.  They aren't in linux-next,
mmotm, or Linus' tree.  Did these get dropped?  Is the revert still
needed?

josh

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