[STABLE REQ] mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected huge vmap mappings

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Jul 3 04:14:16 PDT 2017


On 3 July 2017 at 09:44, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:36:46PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Please consider
>>
>> 029c54b09599 mm/vmalloc.c: huge-vmap: fail gracefully on unexpected
>> huge vmap mappings
>>
>> for inclusion into the v4.9 and v4.11 stable trees. It prevents
>> crashes on arm64 that may occur after commit 324420bf91f6 ("arm64: add
>> support for ioremap() block mappings") was merged for v4.6.
>
> Does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree, can you provide a backport for it
> there?
>

Done.

Regards,
Ard.



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