Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/101] 4.9.144-stable review

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 15:41 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:40:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 20:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.144 release.
> > > There are 101 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.ÂÂIf anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Sat DecÂÂ8 14:29:43 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂhttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.144-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂgit://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > > Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ÂÂÂÂhugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow
> > > 
> > > Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ÂÂÂÂhugetlbfs: fix offset overflow in hugetlbfs mmap
> > > 
> > > Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ÂÂÂÂmm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails
> > 
> > Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> > Regressions detected on arm32 and i386.
> > 
> > truncate_above_4GB (2M: 32): FAIL mmap() offset 4GB: Invalid argument
> 
> Can this be tracked down to a commit in this tree that caused this
> regression?

The test failure is part of a hugetlb test group, so one of the above
is responsible.

Ah, I missed this fix (it's already in 4.14-stable:

commit 5df63c2a149ae65a9ec239e7c2af44efa6f79beb
Author: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:ÂÂÂThu Apr 5 16:18:21 2018 -0700

ÂÂÂÂhugetlbfs: fix bug in pgoff overflow checking

Ben.

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