Date:   Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:16:51 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/923] 5.15.3-rc3 review
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 03:50:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Sorry for top-posting and quoting this all, but the actual people
> involved with the wchan changes don't seem to be on the participant
> list.

Adding more folks from a private report and
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215031

and for the new people, here's a lore link for this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/YZV02RCRVHIa144u@fedora64.linuxtx.org/


FWIW, earlier bisection pointed to the stable backport of
5d1ceb3969b6b2e47e2df6d17790a7c5a20fcbb4 being the primary culprit.
At first glance it seems to me that the problem with -stable is that an
unvetted subset of the wchan refactoring series landed in -stable.

-Kees

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Kees Cook