Re: Fwd: Memory corruption in multithreaded user space program while calling fork

From: Suren Baghdasaryan
Date: Wed Jul 05 2023 - 12:14:20 EST


On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 8:49 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:51:57 +0200 "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)" <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > >>> I'm in wait-a-few-days-mode on this. To see if we have a backportable
> > >>> fix rather than disabling the feature in -stable.
> >
> > Andrew, how long will you remain in "wait-a-few-days-mode"? Given what
> > Greg said below and that we already had three reports I know of I'd
> > prefer if we could fix this rather sooner than later in mainline --
> > especially as Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed likely have switched to
> > 6.4.y already or will do so soon.
>
> I'll send today's 2-patch series to Linus today or tomorrow.

I need to make a correction to the patch fixing the issue (the first
one in the series) and will post it within an hour. Thanks!