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From: Marius Fleischer <fleischermarius@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:05:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in xlog_cil_commit
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>, 
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
	harrisonmichaelgreen@gmail.com, syzkaller@googlegroups.com
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Hi Dave,

Thank you so much for your detailed explanations!

> > Do you think it would make sense to backport that patch to 5.15.156 (the
> > LTS kernel)?
>
> That's up to the 5.15 LTS maintainers to decide. They also need to
> weigh up the fact that xlog_cil_kvmalloc() doesn't exist anymore in
> the upstream code base. i.e. we found other places that had the same
> kvmalloc() performance problems, and so lifted that code up further
> and used it in other places in XFS....
>

Understood. Please allow me one last follow-up question. Did I add the correct
maintainers/mailing lists to reach the 5.15 LTS maintainers? If not,
how do I find
the correct addresses? I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl as suggested here
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html)
to locate maintainers/mailing lists.

Wishing you a lovely week!

Best,
Marius