Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: Fix off-by-one error in hugetlb_vmdelete_list()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Dec 29 2021 - 18:29:12 EST


On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:52:37 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +Cc Andrew if he wants to take it though his tree.

Sure.

> >
> > Not sure if this should go to stable@. It's mostly harmless, and likely
> > nothing more than a minor performance blip when it's not harmless.
>
> I am also unsure about the need to send to stable. It is possible automation
> will pick it up and make that decision for us.

Automation shouldn't do that for mm/ patches because we asked. But fs/
material might sneak through. But it does appear that -stable
won't need this.