netdev - Re: [Patch net] cgroup: fix cgroup_sk_alloc() for sk_clone

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:24:45 -0400
From:   Peter Geis <pgwipeout@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Cameron Berkenpas <cam@...-zeon.de>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lu Fengqi <lufq.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        Daniël Sonck <dsonck92@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] cgroup: fix cgroup_sk_alloc() for sk_clone_lock()

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:03 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:48:48PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:48 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Btw if we want to backport the problem but can't blame a specific commit,
> > > we can always use something like "Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>    [3.1+]".
> >
> > Sure, but if we don't know which is the right commit to blame, then how
> > do we know which stable version should the patch target? :)
> >
> > I am open to all options here, including not backporting to stable at all.
>
> It seems to be that the issue was there from bd1060a1d671 ("sock, cgroup: add sock->sk_cgroup"),
> so I'd go with it. Otherwise we can go with 5.4+, as I understand before that it was
> hard to reproduce it.
>
> Thanks!

Just wanted to let you know, this patch has been running for ~36 hours
or so without a crash.
So:
Tested-by: Peter Geis <pgwipeout@...il.com>