From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:26:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abCamDkRssM8QUVa@pavilion.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260310-work-kernel-exit-v2-1-30711759d87b@kernel.org>
Le Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Christian Brauner a écrit :
> In 28aaa9c39945 ("kthread: consolidate kthread exit paths to prevent use-after-free")
> we folded kthread_exit() into do_exit() when we fixed a nasty UAF bug.
> We left kthread_exit() around as an alias to do_exit(). Remove it
> completely.
Thanks for fixing that UAF! I unfortunately missed it.
>
> Reported-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1ff1bce2-8bb4-463c-a631-16e14f4ea7e2@arm.com
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
--
Frederic Weisbecker
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 14:56 [PATCH v2 0/2] kthread, exit: clean up kernel thread exit paths Christian Brauner
2026-03-10 14:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit() Christian Brauner
2026-03-10 22:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2026-03-11 10:47 ` David Laight
2026-03-18 23:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-10 14:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit() Christian Brauner
2026-03-10 22:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2026-03-11 0:02 ` Steven Rostedt
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