NACK/Cmnt: [SRU][P/J][PATCH v3 2/2] padata: Remove comment for reorder_work

Manuel Diewald manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Thu Oct 9 14:01:52 UTC 2025


On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 01:06:28PM -0400, Alice C. Munduruca wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Remove comment for reorder_work which no longer exists.
> 
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
> Fixes: 71203f68c774 ("padata: Fix pd UAF once and for all")
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> (cherry picked from commit 82a0302e7167d0b7c6cde56613db3748f8dd806d)
> CVE-2024-38584

There is a typo, CVE-2024-38584 instead of CVE-2025-38584.

> Signed-off-by: Alice C. Munduruca <alice.munduruca at canonical.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/padata.h | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/padata.h b/include/linux/padata.h
> index b486c7359de2..765f2778e264 100644
> --- a/include/linux/padata.h
> +++ b/include/linux/padata.h
> @@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ struct padata_cpumask {
>   * @processed: Number of already processed objects.
>   * @cpu: Next CPU to be processed.
>   * @cpumask: The cpumasks in use for parallel and serial workers.
> - * @reorder_work: work struct for reordering.
>   */
>  struct parallel_data {
>  	struct padata_shell		*ps;
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
> 
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Backports look good but we need to fix the CVE ID so that the changelog
entry is not confusing. In theory the stable lead applying the patches
could fix this but maybe it's better to re-submit.

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 Manuel
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