Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] locking/lockdep: Forcing subclasses to have same name pointer as their parent class

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 09:34:46AM +0300, botta633 wrote:
> From: Ahmed Ehab <bottaawesome633@gmail.com>
> 
> Preventing lockdep_set_subclass from creating a new instance of the
> string literal. Hence, we will always have the same class->name among
> parent and subclasses. This prevents kernel panics when looking up a
> lock class while comparing class locks and class names.
> 
> Reported-by: <syzbot+7f4a6f7f7051474e40ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
> Fixes: de8f5e4f2dc1f ("lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed Ehab <bottaawesome633@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/lockdep.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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