From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Gu Bowen <gubowen5@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Fix possible deadlock in console_trylock_spinning
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:08:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aJ3f05Dqzx0OouJa@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3e631dc-245a-4efe-98e5-cbe94464daec@huawei.com>
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 10:33:56AM +0800, Gu Bowen wrote:
> On 8/14/2025 6:56 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I'm not sure which kernel version this was against, but kmemleak.c has
> > changed quite a lot.
> >
> > Could we please see a patch against a latest kernel version? Linus
> > mainline will suit.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I discovered this issue in kernel version 5.10. Afterwards, I reviewed the
> code of the mainline version and found that this deadlock path no longer
> exists due to the refactoring of console_lock in v6.2-rc1. For details on
> the refactoring, you can refer to this link :
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221116162152.193147-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de/.
> Therefore, theoretically, this issue existed before the refactoring of
> console_lock.
Oh, so you can no longer hit this issue with mainline. This wasn't
mentioned (or I missed it) in the commit log.
So this would be a stable-only fix that does not have a correspondent
upstream. Adding Greg for his opinion.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-14 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 8:53 Gu Bowen
2025-08-13 16:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-08-13 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2025-08-14 2:33 ` Gu Bowen
2025-08-14 13:08 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2025-08-14 13:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-08-14 14:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-08-14 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-08-14 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-08-18 2:24 ` Gu Bowen
2025-08-18 5:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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