Re: [stable] locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter

Sasha Levin
2020-03-18T22:29:08Z

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:09:20PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>This commit (included in 5.6-rc5) seems to be needed for 5.4 and 5.5
>branches:
>
>commit 6d390e4b5d48ec03bb87e63cf0a2bff5f4e116da
>Author: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
>Date: Wed Mar 4 15:25:56 2020 +0800
>
> locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter

I've queued it up for 5.5 and 5.4, thanks!

>I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't yet been applied, while some fixes
>from 5.6-rc6 have.

Greg, I wonder if it makes sense to have you push a "Greg is here
--->" "bookmark" in the form of a tag/branch on linux-stable-rc.git? at
the very least it'll make it easy to see if something was missed or
still waiting in the queue.

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Thanks,
Sasha