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From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm•com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-bys missing for commit in the mm-hotfixes tree
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:58:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6513431-0a69-445e-9211-28a9dc9691d1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230924164201.863ad5e63a2d555f6d33254c@linux-foundation.org>

On 25/09/2023 00:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:50:26 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Commit
>>
>>   48248e468270 ("mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at()")
>>
>> is missing Signed-off-bys from its author and committer.
>>
>> It looks like the commit message has been truncated.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  The changelog has a stray ^---$:
> 
> : If CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, we do at least get a BUG(), but otherwise,
> : it will dereference a bad pointer in page_folio():
> : 
> :     static inline struct folio *hugetlb_swap_entry_to_folio(swp_entry_t entry)
> :     {
> :         VM_BUG_ON(!is_migration_entry(entry) && !is_hwpoison_entry(entry));
> : 
> :         return page_folio(pfn_to_page(swp_offset_pfn(entry)));
> :     }
> : 
> : 
> : Fix
> 
> <chomp>
> 
> : ---
> : 
> : The simplest fix would have been to revert the dodgy cleanup commit
> : 18f3962953e4 ("mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()"), but since
> : things have moved on, this would have required an audit of all the new
> : set_huge_pte_at() call sites to see if they should be converted to
> : set_huge_swap_pte_at().  As per the original intent of the change, it
> : would also leave us open to future bugs when people invariably get it
> : wrong and call the wrong helper.
> 
> That's actually from the [0/n] intro, which I pasted into the [1/n]
> changelog.
> 
> It gets through my scripts OK
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-hugetlb-add-huge-page-size-param-to-set_huge_pte_at.patch),
> but it looks like git-quiltimport did the deed.
> 
> Let me add a check for that...

I don't think there is any action for me here? (except possibly, never use 3
dashes in a row on any future email correspondence). Shout if you need anything.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-25  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-24 21:50 linux-next: Signed-off-bys missing for commit in the mm-hotfixes tree Stephen Rothwell
2023-09-24 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2023-09-25  8:58   ` Ryan Roberts [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-04 20:49 Stephen Rothwell
2022-12-04 22:02 ` Andrew Morton

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