Re: [PATCH hotfix 6.12 0/8] fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 03:22:36AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:40:51 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > After this we go further, refactoring the code, placing it in mm/vma.c in
> > order to make it eventually userland testable, and significantly
> > simplifying the logic to avoid this issue arising in future.
>
> I'm not sure that patches 4-8 are strictly 6.12 material.  What's the
> thinking here?
>

Patch 4 is absolutely critical and without which 1-3 don't really matter
all that much. It also needs to be backported (I will be doing some manual
backports for that once landed).

Patches 5-8 could be held back to 6.13 if preferred as, while nice to have
as they do further work to eliminate this class of bugs, are not as
important.