From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>,
pv-drivers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gil Kupfer <gilkup@gmail.com>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"ldu@redhat.com" <ldu@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:42:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHcwAbQ4y3vWp7p7GayfdbzbomLrqLKMfu0egEoEODJ3LN5qOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <219A03D6-7375-4577-90BA-45DCF2A29289@vmware.com>
Hi.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:
> Actually, rechecking the bug description, I might have rushed. The bug that
> I encountered is related to the vunmap() but it is only caused when batching
> is off, while the bug you reported has batching on.
>
> It seems that your sources support batching but do not include b91f108a3d54
> (“VMware balloon: Treat init like reset”), which I think would have solved
> the problem. I don’t see a mainline kernel that supports batching and does
> not have this patch, so it would be helpful to see the exact module that you
> use.
Correct. The hash is d7568c130d0d0ff1fc5b364fc879b91f108a3d54, actually, though.
Yes, we miss this commit in our code base, but also we've already
provided a test kernel
with this commit included to the customer. Unfortunately, we have no answer yet.
--
Best regards,
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
Software Maintenance Engineer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-12 19:19 [PATCH] vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off Nadav Amit
2018-03-12 19:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Nadav Amit
2018-03-14 4:02 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-14 7:41 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-03-19 18:52 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-20 7:21 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-03-22 20:02 ` Nadav Amit
2018-03-23 8:42 ` Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
2018-04-16 11:36 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-04-18 17:54 ` Nadav Amit
2018-04-19 6:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v3] " Nadav Amit
2018-04-30 17:30 ` Nadav Amit
2018-05-04 11:26 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-05-30 1:21 ` Nadav Amit
2018-05-31 20:56 ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-01 7:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-01 15:00 ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-01 7:47 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND] " Nadav Amit
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