linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off

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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:21:21 +0100
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@...are.com>,
        pv-drivers <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gil Kupfer <gilkup@...il.com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, ldu@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off

Hi.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com> wrote:
>> Oleksandr, if you can confirm that it fixes the bug you encountered, it
>> would be great.
>>
>> Greg, Arnd, on your free time, please let me know if there is any issue
>> with the patch, and whether you can incorporate it, preferably in 4.16,
>> since it is a bug-fix that was encountered by Red-Hat customers.
>
> Ping?

No news from me (yet). We depends on the customer here since we are
unable to reproduce the issue in-house. If you have a recipe on how to
trigger it reliably, please let us know, and this will speed up the
verification process.

Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
  Software Maintenance Engineer