Also, this patch:
- mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit
seems to exist already in the xenial tree:
"d4a5d4fe58f1c28 mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit"
which was part of the fix for CVE-2019-11487
Both the xenial patch and the linux-stable patch purport to backport f958d7b528b1b40c44cfda5eabe2d82760d868c3 - however, they are different from each other. The one that we already had in Xenial is the one that looks like the upstream patch. The linux-stable version of the patch is quite different.
I will check with Cascardo on what to do about this.
Also, this patch:
- mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit
seems to exist already in the xenial tree:
"d4a5d4fe58f1c28 mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit"
which was part of the fix for CVE-2019-11487
Both the xenial patch and the linux-stable patch purport to backport f958d7b528b1b40 c44cfda5eabe2d8 2760d868c3 - however, they are different from each other. The one that we already had in Xenial is the one that looks like the upstream patch. The linux-stable version of the patch is quite different.
I will check with Cascardo on what to do about this.