linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/14] x86/irq: Plug various vector cleanup races

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:35:51 -0500
From:	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>, <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] x86/irq: Plug various vector cleanup races

On 12/31/2015 11:30 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Joe reported a nasty race in the vector cleanup code which results in stale
> irq descriptors in the vector arrays and a potential use after free.
> 
> This series addresses this issue, another race which was found and fixed by
> Jiang related to the same area, plus a cpu hotplug issue which is not related
> to this.
> 
> This lot is intended for stable, but not yet marked so. The diffstat below is
> rather large, but this is mostly due to extensive commentry which I added in
> the process.

Hi Thomas,

No issues running the same PCI device removal and stress tests against
the patchset.

Thanks,

Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
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