The patch titled Subject: epoll: ep_autoremove_wake_function should use list_del_init_careful has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is epoll-ep_autoremove_wake_function-should-use-list_del_init_careful.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/epoll-ep_autoremove_wake_function-should-use-list_del_init_careful.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: epoll: ep_autoremove_wake_function should use list_del_init_careful Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 11:32:28 -0700 autoremove_wake_function uses list_del_init_careful, so should epoll's more aggressive variant. It only doesn't because it was copied from an older wait.c rather than the most recent. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26pm6hvfer.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: a16ceb139610 ("epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively") Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c~epoll-ep_autoremove_wake_function-should-use-list_del_init_careful +++ a/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ static int ep_autoremove_wake_function(s { int ret = default_wake_function(wq_entry, mode, sync, key); - list_del_init(&wq_entry->entry); + list_del_init_careful(&wq_entry->entry); return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx are epoll-ep_autoremove_wake_function-should-use-list_del_init_careful.patch