Re: [RESEND PATCH v1 0/7]vhost: Add support of kthread API

From: Mike Christie
Date: Wed Sep 11 2024 - 12:19:27 EST


On 9/10/24 10:45 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> It depends on how we define "secure". There's plenty of users of
>>> kthread and if I was not wrong, mike may still need to fix some bugs.
>>>
>>
>> which bugs?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/06369c2c-c363-4def-9ce0-f018a9e10e8d@xxxxxxxxxx/T/

The SIGKILL issue in that specific email is fixed. The patches are
merged upstream. I don't know of any other bugs like that (crashes,
hangs, etc). There is the one we can't reproduce so are not sure if
it's the vhost changes.

There is the change in behavior type of bug we discussed in that
thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/06369c2c-c363-4def-9ce0-f018a9e10e8d@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m026f7dd96e064e3a604155e45e7ae9d5c949ae23