This commit fixes a pair of bugs in which an improbable but very real
sequence of events can cause kfree_rcu() to be a bit too quick about
freeing the memory passed to it. It turns out that this pair of bugs
is about two years old, and so this is not a v6.3 regression. However:
(1) It just started showing up in the wild and (2) Its consequences are
dire, so its fix needs to go in sooner rather than later.
Testing is of course being upgraded, and the upgraded tests detect this
situation very quickly. But to the best of my knowledge right now, the
tests are not particularly urgent and will thus most likely show up in
the v6.5 merge window (the one after this coming one).
Kudos to Ziwei Dai and his group for tracking this one down the hard way!
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Merge tag 'urgent-rcu.2023.04.07a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU fix from Paul McKenney:
"This fixes a pair of bugs in which an improbable but very real
sequence of events can cause kfree_rcu() to be a bit too quick about
freeing the memory passed to it.
It turns out that this pair of bugs is about two years old, and so
this is not a v6.3 regression. However: (1) It just started showing up
in the wild and (2) Its consequences are dire, so its fix needs to go
in sooner rather than later.
Testing is of course being upgraded, and the upgraded tests detect
this situation very quickly. But to the best of my knowledge right
now, the tests are not particularly urgent and will thus most likely
show up in the v6.5 merge window (the one after this coming one).
Kudos to Ziwei Dai and his group for tracking this one down the hard
way!"
* tag 'urgent-rcu.2023.04.07a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
rcu/kvfree: Avoid freeing new kfree_rcu() memory after old grace period
0d3eb744ae