Thread (134 messages) 134 messages, 10 authors, 2024-11-11

Re: [PATCH 01/39] memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: 2024-07-30 07:38:02
Also in: bpf, cgroups, kvm, linux-fsdevel

I think it can go through Andrew as well. The patch is 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240730051625.14349-1-viro@kernel.org/T/#u (local)

On Tue 30-07-24 08:18:51, Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 09:13:38AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
quoted
On Tue 30-07-24 01:15:47, viro@kernel.org wrote:
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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL
is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

[the sucker got moved in mainline]
You could have preserved
Fixes: 0dea116876ee ("cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications")
Cc: stable
quoted
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
and
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Will do; FWIW, I think it would be better off going via the
cgroup tree - it's completely orthogonal to the rest of the
series, the only relation being "got caught during the same
audit"...
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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