Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes

From: Gregory Price (Meta)

Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 07:45:57 EST


On 2026-10-27 10:34 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 10/26/26 22:24, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote:
> > On 2026-10-26 22:09 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >> On 10/26/26 21:08, Gregory Price wrote:
> >>>
> >>> feel free to take or leave the selftests.
> >>
> >> Thanks, no time to polish selftest ;)
> >>
> >
> > It's there to show the work more than to merge, but the long-term goal
> > here is to feed these tests into a larger session that does the polish.
>
> Agreed. But a note that if these essentially contain reproducers that can cause
> harm on real systems, posting them upstream might not be a very good idea until
> fixed.
>
> Well, unless people can trivially generate them already.
>

Nothing here has been generated by anything the public does not have
access to with a $20 subscription or enough RAM to a run a decent
model locally. Otherwise I wouldn't have posted it.

Posting the patch is the full disclosure at this point.

--
~Gregory