Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in xlog_cil_commit

Darrick J. Wong
2024-04-24T03:42:33Z

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:05:22AM -0700, Marius Fleischer wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thank you so much for your detailed explanations!
>
> > > Do you think it would make sense to backport that patch to 5.15.156 (the
> > > LTS kernel)?
> >
> > That's up to the 5.15 LTS maintainers to decide. They also need to
> > weigh up the fact that xlog_cil_kvmalloc() doesn't exist anymore in
> > the upstream code base. i.e. we found other places that had the same
> > kvmalloc() performance problems, and so lifted that code up further
> > and used it in other places in XFS....
> >
>
> Understood. Please allow me one last follow-up question. Did I add the correct
> maintainers/mailing lists to reach the 5.15 LTS maintainers? If not,
> how do I find
> the correct addresses? I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl as suggested here
> (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html)
> to locate maintainers/mailing lists.

You got it correct -- Leah is the 5.15 maintainer of record.

--D

> Wishing you a lovely week!
>
> Best,
> Marius