Re: [patch 00/14] x86/irq: Plug various vector cleanup races

[Joe Lawrence]

On 12/31/2015 11:30 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Joe reported a nasty race in the vector cleanup code which results in stale
> irq descriptors in the vector arrays and a potential use after free.
> 
> This series addresses this issue, another race which was found and fixed by
> Jiang related to the same area, plus a cpu hotplug issue which is not related
> to this.
> 
> This lot is intended for stable, but not yet marked so. The diffstat below is
> rather large, but this is mostly due to extensive commentry which I added in
> the process.

Hi Thomas,

No issues running the same PCI device removal and stress tests against
the patchset.

Thanks,

Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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