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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: <mhocko@suse.com>, <david@redhat.com>,
	<pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>, <sieberf@amazon.com>,
	<shakeelb@google.com>, <sjpark@amazon.de>, <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	<willy@infradead.org>, <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] mm: fix use-after free of page_ext after race with memory-offline
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 18:57:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220809185714.5af7057c1270b11079cb196a@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1660056403-20894-1-git-send-email-quic_charante@quicinc.com>

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:16:43 +0530 Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> wrote:

> The below is one path where race between page_ext and  offline of the
> respective memory blocks will cause use-after-free on the access of
> page_ext structure.

Has this race ever been observed at runtime?

Given the size of the fix, I'm looking for excuses to not backport it
into -stable kernels!


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-10  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-09 14:46 Charan Teja Kalla
2022-08-10  1:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-08-10  7:23   ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-10  8:27     ` Charan Teja Kalla
2022-08-10 11:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-08-10 14:31   ` Charan Teja Kalla
     [not found] ` <Yvpg6odyDsXrjw5i@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2022-08-15 15:26   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-15 15:31     ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-16  9:34   ` Charan Teja Kalla
     [not found]     ` <YvvCpW0ep9N8CbDr@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2022-08-18 14:01       ` Charan Teja Kalla

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