Re: [PATCH] mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at should_reclaim_retry().

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> > For those of us who are tracking CVE-2016-10723 which has peristently been 
> > labeled as "disputed" and with no clear indication of what patches address 
> > it, I am assuming that commit 9bfe5ded054b ("mm, oom: remove sleep from 
> > under oom_lock") and this patch are the intended mitigations?
> > 
> > A list of SHA1s for merged fixed and links to proposed patches to address 
> > this issue would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Commit 9bfe5ded054b ("mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock") is a
> mitigation for CVE-2016-10723.
> 
> "[PATCH] mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at
> should_reclaim_retry()." is independent from CVE-2016-10723.
> 

Thanks, Tetsuo.  Should commit af5679fbc669 ("mm, oom: remove oom_lock 
from oom_reaper") also be added to the list for CVE-2016-10723?