Re: Who broke cb8f488c33 patch? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] USBHID:correct start/stop cycle)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 19:51:10 EST


On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:34:54 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> > > > > I fully bisected it, and the final "buggy" patch seems to have been
> > > > > Denys Vlasenko's patch: cb8f488c33539f096580e202f5438a809195008f (see
> > > > > http://github.com/jonsmirl/digispeaker/commit/cb8f488c33539f096580e202f5438a809195008f)
> > > > > Denys: Any reason you removed "!prev" in front of "expand_stack"?
> > > > Looks like I erroneously thought it can't be NULL,
> > > > or that expand_upwards() is ok with getting NULL vma parameter.
> > > > I looked again and neither is true.
> > > > Sorry, looks like I indeed broke this.
> > > Hmm, so ... ? Seems like this didn't get fixed in Linus' tree yet?
> > I found my original email in "sent" folder. The patch in that mail does
> > NOT remove !prev. That change had beed added by someone else. See
> > attached file with original email.
> > Ok, I think we are not much interested in who did it,
>
> Hmm, I in fact think we would like to know who removed the check and
> folded it into your original patch. I have added all the Signoffs and CCs
> to the recepient list.
>
> Andrew usually puts
>
> [someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: added this and that to the patch]
>
> marker into the changelog, but it's not the case here.
>
> Having your name in Signed-off-by field of something you are not aware of
> should make you feel at least a little bit nervous IMHO.
>
> > let's fix it for good.
> > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > --- linux-2.6.28-rc4/mm/mmap.c Mon Nov 10 01:36:15 2008
> > +++ linux-2.6.28-rc4.fix/mm/mmap.c Wed Nov 12 01:21:39 2008
> > @@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@
> > vma = find_vma_prev(mm, addr, &prev);
> > if (vma && (vma->vm_start <= addr))
> > return vma;
> > - if (expand_stack(prev, addr))
> > + if (!prev || expand_stack(prev, addr))
> > return NULL;
> > if (prev->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
> > if (mlock_vma_pages_range(prev, addr, prev->vm_end) < 0)
>

It looks like this was caused by me fixing rejects. That was the fancy
include-lots-of-context-so-it-wont-apply patch.

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