Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 13/16] kmsan: disable physical page merging in biovec

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 18 2022 - 05:34:39 EST


Hi!

> From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit f630a5d0ca59a6e73b61e3f82c371dc230da99ff ]
>
> KMSAN metadata for adjacent physical pages may not be adjacent, therefore
> accessing such pages together may lead to metadata corruption. We disable
> merging pages in biovec to prevent such corruptions.

KMSAN is not there at least in 5.10, so we should not have this in
-stable.

Best regards,
Pavel
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