Re: [PATCH] zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of bounds accesses
From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 01:11:22 EST
Hi Jens,
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:38:26PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 03/30/2017 05:45 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:35:56AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 03/30/2017 09:08 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >>> Hi Jens,
> >>>
> >>> It seems you miss this.
> >>> Could you handle this?
> >>
> >> I can, but I'm a little confused. The comment talks about replacing
> >> the one I merged with this one, I can't do that. I'm assuming you
> >> are talking about this commit:
> >
> > Right.
> >
> >>
> >> commit 0bc315381fe9ed9fb91db8b0e82171b645ac008f
> >> Author: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Mon Mar 6 11:23:35 2017 +0100
> >>
> >> zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of bounds accesses
> >>
> >> which is in mainline. The patch still applies, though.
> >
> > You mean it's already in mainline so you cannot replace but can revert.
> > Right?
> > If so, please revert it and merge this one.
>
> Let's please fold it into the other patch. That's cleaner and it makes
> logical sense.
Understood.
>
> >> Do we really REALLY need this for 4.11, or can we queue for 4.12 and
> >> mark it stable?
> >
> > Not urgent because one in mainline fixes the problem so I'm okay
> > with 4.12 but I don't want mark it as -stable.
>
> OK good, please resend with the two-line revert in your current
> patch, and I'll get it queued up for 4.12.
Yeb. If so, now that I think about it, it would be better to handle
it via Andrew's tree because Andrew have been handled zram's patches
and I have several pending patches based on it.
So, I will send new patchset with it to Andrew.
Thanks!