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Re: [Stable-review] [RFC] mlock/stack guard interaction fixup



On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:55 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime I notice you've committed the patches. Can we get them
> queued up for stable backports at some point? I appreciate you might
> want them to bake for a bit longer in 2.6.36-rc first.
> 
> Greg, we are talking about:
> 0e8e50e20c837eeec8323bba7dcd25fe5479194c mm: make stack guard page logic use vm_prev pointer
> 7798330ac8114c731cfab83e634c6ecedaa233d7 mm: make the mlock() stack guard page checks stricter
> 297c5eee372478fc32fec5fe8eed711eedb13f3d mm: make the vma list be doubly linked
[...]

Should these go into 2.6.32-21?  What exactly is the impact of not
applying them?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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