Re: [PATCH] mm/kfence: fix potential deadlock in reboot notifier

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Mon Jan 19 2026 - 05:20:15 EST


Hello Marco, Andrew,

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 08:00:00AM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 16:49, Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The issue is that cancel_delayed_work_sync() waits for the work to
> > complete, but the work is waiting for kfence_allocation_gate > 0
> > which requires allocations to happen (each allocation is increated by 1)
>
> increated -> increased

[...]

> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for reviewing this patch.

Andrew,

Please let me know if you want to send me a v2 with the typo above
fixed, or, if you can fix it in your own tree.

Thanks
--breno