This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     hugetlbfs-stop-setting-vm_dontdump-in-initializing-vma-vm_hugetlb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From a2fce9143057f4eb7675a21cca1b6beabe585c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:27 -0700
Subject: hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>

commit a2fce9143057f4eb7675a21cca1b6beabe585c8b upstream.

Currently we fail to include any data on hugepages into coredump,
because VM_DONTDUMP is set on hugetlbfs's vma.  This behavior was
recently introduced by commit 314e51b9851b ("mm: kill vma flag
VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter").

This looks to me a serious regression, so let's fix it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct fi
         * way when do_mmap_pgoff unwinds (may be important on powerpc
         * and ia64).
         */
-       vma->vm_flags |= VM_HUGETLB | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
+       vma->vm_flags |= VM_HUGETLB | VM_DONTEXPAND;
        vma->vm_ops = &hugetlb_vm_ops;
 
        if (vma->vm_pgoff & (~huge_page_mask(h) >> PAGE_SHIFT))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.8/fs-binfmt_elf.c-fix-hugetlb-memory-check-in-vma_dump_size.patch
queue-3.8/hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page.patch
queue-3.8/hugetlbfs-stop-setting-vm_dontdump-in-initializing-vma-vm_hugetlb.patch
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