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This commit fixes a pair of bugs in which an improbable but very real sequence of events can cause kfree_rcu() to be a bit too quick about freeing the memory passed to it. It turns out that this pair of bugs is about two years old, and so this is not a v6.3 regression. However: (1) It just started showing up in the wild and (2) Its consequences are dire, so its fix needs to go in sooner rather than later. Testing is of course being upgraded, and the upgraded tests detect this situation very quickly. But to the best of my knowledge right now, the tests are not particularly urgent and will thus most likely show up in the v6.5 merge window (the one after this coming one). Kudos to Ziwei Dai and his group for tracking this one down the hard way! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJHBAABCgAxFiEEbK7UrM+RBIrCoViJnr8S83LZ+4wFAmQwt4UTHHBhdWxtY2tA a2VybmVsLm9yZwAKCRCevxLzctn7jNupD/sG0OTsQ+8zjAG9VhtdkGt3UwXod6z8 8yiM4fMJxECLtFwBD6kvM5jSs87AoSnUNWO2/Ii4v1VymhvzR4i/4+mQ9D6Cr4cQ yYdo3A1MlcZcjc7Po5KlX7y3JT8kLr8ijaA8XPxGHwVqHNQ6RF64gFercaeDykNv IFSrqylMvkqhReCFaDGgsVjR8jI4wso8b9IQAO1vnReJLRydui99ibRCWoMH54ev KO4kPc6QTuqFFHy7o7GgeNty09vLIN/QdEL7sTWUpLBStEzTsAdt5rARx47y+nuw Gh99s+abPFhO5Iy8nQin6MuBCdua1PbJM0yclU3UvmrhgkjoS9GMjiXP9bZ8t9AX ltiTvcippo1NpDcfNLaK5kt7FA2hlk8631jqPL0h558935vP8rlmgEddtEkqhOWv muHh1M4IMc/kix26hvLRf3aE8pszxU0b1NIuPkdEUakrvdXE32GlxMmlFZz4ApQ4 DnWlb3Vqof2AjAEUoh7jp4/7tgQaA8Hh1xERuqftQP/NjxNM1naaTwqdKryQFu5c V3lpn1t5G1xchHkAtuxDh2oVgWBlz5GPtga6AWuxrYPxxbzbl7eb1gEsZpXs0BF/ AB8/KSPcG0Is3yp4Gfet76n0SMWcFVw/g0ISXrTlXkPauXpll15f7PF22154M9f8 EinobMxu9DPT6Q== =VsnL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'urgent-rcu.2023.04.07a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu Pull RCU fix from Paul McKenney: "This fixes a pair of bugs in which an improbable but very real sequence of events can cause kfree_rcu() to be a bit too quick about freeing the memory passed to it. It turns out that this pair of bugs is about two years old, and so this is not a v6.3 regression. However: (1) It just started showing up in the wild and (2) Its consequences are dire, so its fix needs to go in sooner rather than later. Testing is of course being upgraded, and the upgraded tests detect this situation very quickly. But to the best of my knowledge right now, the tests are not particularly urgent and will thus most likely show up in the v6.5 merge window (the one after this coming one). Kudos to Ziwei Dai and his group for tracking this one down the hard way!" * tag 'urgent-rcu.2023.04.07a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: rcu/kvfree: Avoid freeing new kfree_rcu() memory after old grace period |
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