linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aio: fix mremap after fork null-deref

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:39:04 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: fix mremap after fork null-deref

On Fri,  4 Nov 2022 17:25:19 -0400 Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@...gle.com> wrote:

> Commit e4a0d3e720e7 ("aio: Make it possible to remap aio ring") introduced
> a null-deref if mremap is called on an old aio mapping after fork as
> mm->ioctx_table will be set to NULL.
> 

Is this a theoretical thing, or has this oops actually been observed?