Re: Patch "coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:08:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 08:50 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 04-06-19 16:51:38, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > [...]
> > > - I don't understand why collapse_huge_range() needs to be fixed, but
> > > then I really don't understand the khugepaged code at all!  So I would
> > > trust Michal on this.
> > 
> > To be honest, I am not really sure myself here. But we are using a
> > remote mm there and I do not see anything that would prevent from racing
> > with exit/coredump. Maybe I am wrong. Let's wait for Andrea for his
> > review feedback. This patch is quite tricky for the stable backport.
> 
> So, Greg, it seems like you should drop this from the current stable
> round.

Ok, will do, thanks.

greg k-h



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