Re: [PATCH 4/4] rhashtable: fix vmalloc() deadlock in atomic rehash

From: Herbert Xu

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 00:22:01 EST


On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 08:28:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Sadly, the commit you point to doesn't talk about *why* that
> braindamage was done. Looking at the original thread it seems like it
> was for kmsan.

Here is the link to the whole series that was applied (v4):

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251007122035.56347-11-urezki@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m50cf87c3f12015a56abe5a6359525019851f1b97

This is the original RFC:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250704152537.55724-1-urezki@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
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