Re: [6.5-rc5 regression] core dump hangs (was Re: [Bug report] fstests generic/051 (on xfs) hang on latest linux v6.5-rc5+)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jun 12 2023 - 02:12:02 EST


On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:49 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:34:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > So that "!=" should obviously have been a "==".
>
> Same as without the condition - all the fsstress tasks hang in
> do_coredump().

Ok, that at least makes sense. Your "it made things worse" made me go
"What?" until I noticed the stupid backwards test.

I'm not seeing anything else that looks odd in that commit
f9010dbdce91 ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps
regression").

Let's see if somebody else goes "Ahh" when they wake up tomorrow...

Linus