[PATCH 3.8 107/116] hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle migration/hwpoisoned entry

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 16:08 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> 
> > 3.8.13.27 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
> > 
> > commit 4a705fef986231a3e7a6b1a6d3c37025f021f49f upstream.
> > 
> > There's a race between fork() and hugepage migration, as a result we try
> > [...]
> 
> Please drop this one for now: other -stables have carried it, but it
> was found last week to contain a bug of its own, arguably worse than
> what it's fixing.  Naoya-san has done the fix for that, it's in mmotm
> and should make its way to Linus probably this week: so please hold
> this back until that can join it - thanks.
> 
> Hugh

OK, I've dropped it from the 3.8-stable queue, and will watch for the
fix to land.  Thanks very much, Hugh!

 -Kamal