Re: mm: zswap: fix crypto_free_acomp deadlock in zswap_cpu_comp_dead

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Feb 25 2025 - 21:13:35 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 02:08:14AM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
>
> Could you please:
>
> (1) Explain the exact scenario in the commit log, I did not understand
> it at first, only after looking at the syzbot dashboard for a while (and
> I am not sure how long this persists).
>
> (2) Move all the freeing operations outside the mutex? Right now
> crypto_free_acomp() was the problematic call but it could be
> acomp_request_free() next.
>
> Something like:

Looks good to me. Feel free to send this patch since it is your
system after all :)

Thanks,
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