Fwd: Memory corruption in multithreaded user space program while calling fork

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jul 5 08:49:06 PDT 2023


On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:51:57 +0200 "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)" <regressions at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> >>> I'm in wait-a-few-days-mode on this.  To see if we have a backportable
> >>> fix rather than disabling the feature in -stable.
> 
> Andrew, how long will you remain in "wait-a-few-days-mode"? Given what
> Greg said below and that we already had three reports I know of I'd
> prefer if we could fix this rather sooner than later in mainline --
> especially as Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed likely have switched to
> 6.4.y already or will do so soon.

I'll send today's 2-patch series to Linus today or tomorrow.



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