Re: [REGRESSION]: [PATCH mm-hotfixes v5 3/5] x86/mm/pat: acquire init_mm read lock on attribute change to avoid UAF

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 07:30:49 EST


On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 02:30:57PM +0530, Borah, Chaitanya Kumar wrote:
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> On 7/23/2026 7:48 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > Thanks for the report!
> >
> > A small note - it'd be useful for you to clearly point
> > out the revision of next to make our life a bit easier :)
> >
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> Ack.
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Thanks! :)

> > (another small note - running scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh would be hugely
> > useful as these offsets aren't so useful unless I have the exact kernel
> > binary you have with debug symbols :)
> >
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> We have not been asked for that yet but we can surely provide it if it
> becomes absolutely necessary for debugging.
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It would be SUPER useful if it's not too difficult to implement, thanks :)

> Thank you for sending the fixes.
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> CI looks good now.
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> https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/linux-next/combined-alt.html?

Great thanks!

Cheers, Lorenzo