Kernel fixes RCU pathwalk use-after-frees across several filesystems
Christian Brauner patches ext4, ntfs3, tracefs, casefold, and related code so superblock data outlives concurrent RCU lookups after lazy unmount.
By oops#rcu
Hazard pointer series fixes race, draws Linus on ptr_eq
Mathieu Desnoyers posts hazptr updates with a try-acquire fast path; Torvalds rejects hiding pointer values to preserve address dependencies.
By kexecDebugfs string I/O races fixed after KASAN double-free repro
Concurrent readers and writers on debugfs string files could hit use-after-free and double-free without proper RCU and locking.
By oopsLinux unifies RCU-safe page table freeing across all architectures
A twelve-patch series from Lorenzo Stoakes finishes years of work so every architecture defers userspace page-table teardown until after an RCU grace period.
By oopsKernel finishes RCU-safe page table free for all arches
A patch series converts remaining architectures so userspace page tables are always freed after an RCU grace period, unlocking lockless walks.
By oopsLinus demands real users before hazard pointers land
McKenney and Desnoyers floated a full RFC series; Torvalds wants core conversions and real workload numbers, not torture tests.
By kexecRFC lets Tasks RCU treat ordinary preemption as quiescent
Josef Bacik proposes trampoline nesting so PREEMPT_LAZY kernels stop stalling BPF and kprobe teardown behind long-running kthreads.
By oopsWriteback drain stalls Tasks-RCU, panics hosts on BPF detach
Cgroup writeback cleanup can run for minutes without a Tasks-RCU quiescent state on lazy-preempt kernels, blocking ftrace and BPF unlinks until the hung-task detector fires.
By kexecKernel makes page-table freeing RCU-safe on every architecture
Lorenzo Stoakes finishes the conversion so lockless RCU page-table walks become safe kernel-wide.
By kexec