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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260330_180229_102642_D44C1B71 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.57 ) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:26:01 -0700 X-BeenThere: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "Linux-nvme" Errors-To: linux-nvme-bounces+linux-nvme=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 06:10:34PM -0400, Aaron Tomlin wrote: > Hi Jens, Keith, Christoph, Sagi, Michael, > > I have decided to drive this series forward on behalf of Daniel Wagner, the > original author. This iteration addresses the outstanding architectural and > concurrency concerns raised during the previous review cycle, and the series > has been rebased on v7.0-rc5-509-g545475aebc2a. > > Building upon prior iterations, this series introduces critical > architectural refinements to the mapping and affinity spreading algorithms > to guarantee thread safety and resilience against concurrent CPU-hotplug > operations. Previously, the block layer relied on a shared global static > mask (i.e., blk_hk_online_mask), which proved vulnerable to race conditions > during rapid hotplug events. This vulnerability was recently highlighted by > the kernel test robot, which encountered a NULL pointer dereference during > rcutorture (cpuhotplug) stress testing due to concurrent mask modification. Can you share the bug report link? IMO, it should be solved as a backportable patch first if possible. Thanks, Ming