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Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:03:17 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org,
        Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base/node.c: initialize the accessor list before
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:42:39AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> The current code registers the node as available in the node array
> before initializing the accessor list.  This makes it so that
> anything which might access the accessor list as a result of
> allocations will cause an undefined memory access.
> 
> In one example, an extension to access hmat data during interleave
> caused this undefined access as a result of a bulk allocation
> that occurs during node initialization but before the accessor
> list is initialized.

Is this an in-kernel driver that causes this problem?

> 
> Initialize the accessor list before making the node generally
> available to the global system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>

What commit id does this fix?

thanks,

greg k-h