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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Shakeel Butt , David Hildenbrand , Mike Rapoport , Michal Hocko , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap , Jann Horn , Pedro Falcato Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> References: <20261016-fix-vma-lock-overflow-v2-1-9eb778b79b58@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" In-Reply-To: <20261016-fix-vma-lock-overflow-v2-1-9eb778b79b58@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/16/26 1:34 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > So far the assumption has been that mm->mm_lock_seq overflow is benign, > resulting only in readers spuriously falling back to the mmap lock, however > it turns out that this was an unsafe assumption. [snip] LGTM :) and also tested on qemu so: Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga Tested-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga -- cheers, jose a. p-a