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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm/uffd: Fix pte marker when fork() without fork event
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On 16.12.22 17:24, Peter Xu wrote:
> 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.

Right, and these patches are supposed to land in 6.2 as well. Makes
sense to me then.

Especially, the other parts in patch #2 are worth being in a separate patch.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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