Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:52 AM gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.

It shouldn't.

The pipe buffer accounting and soft limits that introduced the whole "limp along with limited pipe buffers" behavior that this fixes was introduced by

Fixes: 759c01142a ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")

..which made it into 4.5.

So 4.4 is unaffected and doesn't want this patch.

Linus