linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary check in alloc_thread_stack

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20220301084505.GJ2812@kadam>
Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 11:45:05 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>,
        "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary check in alloc_thread_stack_node()

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 09:26:26AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2022-03-01 11:07:06 [+0300], Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The "stack" pointer cannot be NULL at this point so there is no
> > need to check.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> Which tree is this against? Could you try against -tip, please?

This was against linux-next.  The patch needs to go through Andrew's
tree, not through -tip.

I should have included a fixes tag so Andrew will know which patch to
fold with.

Fixes: dbcd55bd6681 ("kasan, fork: reset pointer tags of vmapped stacks")

regards,
dan carpenter