Re: Contextual conflict between kspp and rcu trees

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 16:34:19 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 01:28:00PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:55:53PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Per the above RCU commit and commit 6c5218715286 ("context_tracking:
> > Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU"), it appears that the following diff
> > is the proper fix up. Would you mind applying it to the merge of
> > whichever tree comes second if possible? I did build and boot test it
> > but it would not be a bad idea for Sami and Frederic to verify that it
> > is correct so that Kees/Paul can mention it to Linus :)
>
> Actually, the CFI fix (and a few others) are meant to be sent for
> -rc3, so if the ct_irq_enter() change is in -next, this can maybe get
> sorted out?

Indeed, Frederic's context-tracking series is for the next merge window.
So once your changes are added, I will adjust.

Thanx, Paul