Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] ida: fix the allocation failure paths of ida_alloc_range()

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:27:00 -0400 Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> These three patches fix what ida_alloc_range() does when its xas_store()
> fails for want of a node, found while formally verifying the function
> against the kernel binary, where its resource accounting could not be
> established against the code as it is.

Please teach your LLM about the first 32 lines of
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.  Seriously.

Please also tell it that when fixing a bug, it should fully describe
the userspace-visible runtime effects of that bug, especially when
proposing a -stable backport.

Thanks.