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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Gong, Sishuai" <sishuai@purdue.edu>
Cc: "cl@linux.com" <cl@linux.com>,
	"penberg@kernel.org" <penberg@kernel.org>,
	"rientjes@google.com" <rientjes@google.com>,
	"iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com" <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Race: data race between shmem_getpage() and mapping_set_gfp_mask()
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:16:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201130181630.GF4327@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C952EC41-A297-478C-8700-9EC3C66B4AF7@purdue.edu>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 06:14:29PM +0000, Gong, Sishuai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We found a data race in linux kernel 5.3.11 that we are able to reproduce in x86 under specific interleavings. Currently, we are not sure about the consequence of this race so we would like to confirm with the community if this can be a harmful bug.

Are you going to be sending a lot of these?  There's no shortage of
actual bugs hit with syzcaller.  What we're short on is people to review,
analyse and fix bugs.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-30 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 18:14 Race: data race between shmem_getpage() and mapping_set_gfp_mask() Gong, Sishuai
2020-11-30 18:16 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-12-01 20:33   ` Gong, Sishuai

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