Re: [PATCH 6.1 214/219] mm, kmsan: fix infinite recursion due to RCU critical section

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 06:33:19PM +0000, Arnav Kansal wrote:

It does not apply cleanly there. It seems to me that the commit (commit id: 5ec8e8ea8b77 "mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") is not a bug for 5.15 or 5.10 due to the absence of relevant KMSAN bits in those branches.

I do not understand this message at all. What does not apply where?

confused,

greg k-h