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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Dec 08 2018 - 03:39:50 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 11:23:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:34:24PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 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. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > > > let me know.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Responses should be made by Sat Dec 8 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:
> > > > > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.144-rc1.gz
> > > > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > > > > git://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>
> > > > > > hugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > hugetlbfs: fix offset overflow in hugetlbfs mmap
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > mm/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: Thu Apr 5 16:18:21 2018 -0700
> > >
> > > hugetlbfs: fix bug in pgoff overflow checking
> > >
> > > Ben.
> >
> > Thanks for this, I've queued this up and pushed out a -rc2.
> >
> > Naresh, can you see if this fixes the issue for you or not?
>
> Yes This test getting pass on -rc2 on all devices arm64, arm32, x86_64 and i386.
> truncate_above_4GB (2M: 32): PASS

Wonderful, thanks for testing and catching this and letting me know.

greg k-h