On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > For those of us who are tracking CVE-2016-10723 which has peristently been
> > labeled as "disputed" and with no clear indication of what patches address
> > it, I am assuming that commit 9bfe5ded054b ("mm, oom: remove sleep from
> > under oom_lock") and this patch are the intended mitigations?
> >
> > A list of SHA1s for merged fixed and links to proposed patches to address
> > this issue would be appreciated.
> >
>
> Commit 9bfe5ded054b ("mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock") is a
> mitigation for CVE-2016-10723.
>
> "[PATCH] mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at
> should_reclaim_retry()." is independent from CVE-2016-10723.
>
Thanks, Tetsuo. Should commit af5679fbc669 ("mm, oom: remove oom_lock
from oom_reaper") also be added to the list for CVE-2016-10723?
