Sounds good. But I would suggest this to go to -stable as soon as possible. Because this bug is affecting the basic functionality of DCCP. It crashes kernel whenever a new socket in this module is created.
Best,
Zhenpeng
-----Original Message-----
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 7:14 PM
To: "Lin, Zhenpeng" <zplin@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>, "linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx" <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: choose the right freelist pointer location when creating small caches
On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 07:06:45PM +0000, Lin, Zhenpeng wrote:
> No problem. Just took a look and tested the patch, it looks good to me!
Great; thank you! Sorry I dropped the ball on this series. I got
distracted. :) It looks like akpm took it into -mm now, so this should
be fixed in -next soon.
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Kees Cook
