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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:25:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>, "Liam R . Howlett"
 <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn
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 Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap_region() and
 refactor
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:22:36 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:40:51 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > After this we go further, refactoring the code, placing it in mm/vma.c in
> > order to make it eventually userland testable, and significantly
> > simplifying the logic to avoid this issue arising in future.
> 
> I'm not sure that patches 4-8 are strictly 6.12 material.  What's the
> thinking here?
> 

A downside to merging all 8 patches into 6.12-rcX is that when -stable
takes patches 1-4, they will have had negligible testing without the
presence of patches 5-8.  Patches 5-8 might accidentally fix
something..