Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix pmd_modify() dropping the dirty bit

From: Dave Hansen

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 13:09:32 EST


On 9/3/26 00:34, Orson Peters wrote:
> Considering that the impact is so severe if the bug does occur (silent
> memory corruption), will there be backports of this patch? If I'm not
> mistaken the offending line that introduced the bug was first released
> in version 6.6.

Hi Orson,

It's tagged for stable@ so it should hit the stable trees at some point
and make it into the 6.6 series.