Re: Recurring warning in page_copy_sane (inside copy_page_to_iter) when running stress tests involving drop_caches

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 07:07:33 EST


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 08:20:35AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 05:04:06PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Greg, can you consider 6daef95b8c914866a46247232a048447fff97279 for
> > > backporting to stable? Nobody realised it was a bugfix at the time it
> > > went in. I suspect there aren't too many of us running HIGHMEM kernels
> > > any more.
> > >
> >
> > Sure, what kernel version(s) should this go to? 4.19 and newer?
>
> Looks like the problem was introduced with commit
> a90bcb86ae700c12432446c4aa1819e7b8e172ec so 4.14 and newer, I think.

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h