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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm/uffd: Fix pte marker when fork() without fork event
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 04:57:33PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I'm more concerned about backports, when one backports #1 but not #2. In
> theory, patch #2 fixes patch #1, because that introduced IMHO a real
> regression -- a possible memory corruption when discarding a hwpoison
> marker. Warnings are not nice but at least indicate that something needs a
> second look.

Note that backporting patch 1 only is exactly what I wanted to do here - it
means his/her tree should not have the swapin error pte markers at all.

The swapin error pte marker change only existed for a few days in Linus's
tree, so no one should be backporting patch 2.

Thanks,

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Peter Xu

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