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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing use-after-free
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:24:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9rBoJBQi8QRpAK-Vzc1hWnN_UasjUfaxtrioJy1mLxGKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170823211408.31198-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>

Hey Eric,

This is a pretty late response to the thread, but in case you're
curious, since Ubuntu forgot to backport this (I already emailed them
about it), I actually experienced a set of boxes that hit this bug in
the wild and were crashing every 2 weeks or so, when under highload.
It's pretty amazing that syzkaller unearthed this, resulting in a nice
test case, making it possible to debug and fix the error. Otherwise
it'd be a real heisenbug.

So, thanks.

Jason

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-16 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-23 21:14 Eric Biggers
2017-08-24 13:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-08-24 16:59   ` Eric Biggers
2017-08-25 14:40     ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-08-28 15:55       ` Eric Biggers
2017-08-24 15:02 ` Mark Rutland
2017-08-25 10:49   ` Mark Rutland
2017-11-16 22:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]

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