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

From: Linus Torvalds

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 00:39:28 EST


On Tue, 3 Nov 2026 at 21:21, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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):

None of that says why. It only repeats what I already said: it seems
to be due to kmsan doing bad things.

Linus