Re: [PATCH 4/4] rhashtable: fix vmalloc() deadlock in atomic rehash

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 09:39:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> None of that says why.  It only repeats what I already said: it seems
> to be due to kmsan doing bad things.

Fair enough.

When I was told that folks needed vmalloc under GFP_ATOMIC I didn't
question it any further:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/aeiHkG7X_dieMdw5@milan/

Looking back, it does look like it was never explained who these
folks are.

Ulazislau, so who needs vmalloc GFP_ATOMIC support in the kernel?
Or is it only used by out-of-kernel code?

Thanks,
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