Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 4/4] arm64: remove redundant concurrent ptdump UAF mitigation

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 7/14/26 19:24, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This partially reverts commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge
> with ptdump"), retaining vmalloc-huge support but eliminating the now
> redundant mitigation against a race between huge vmap page table freeing
> and ptdump, as this issue has now been fixed at core.
> 
> We also simultaneously remove the arm64 if-deffery when acquiring the mmap
> read lock upon vmap huge page table promotion as it is no longer required.
> 
> Note that this patch relies on the preceding vmalloc patch, and should not
> be backported alone.
> 
> Fixes: fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David