Re: [PATCH 1/1] init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 19 May 2026 09:39:37 +0000, Jia He wrote:
> initramfs_test_extract() and friends call unpack_to_rootfs() from a
> kunit kthread while do_populate_rootfs() may still be running
> asynchronously from rootfs_initcall. unpack_to_rootfs() keeps its
> parser state in module-static variables (victim, byte_count, state,
> this_header, header_buf, name_buf, ...), so the two writers corrupt
> each other.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-7.2.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.2.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.2.misc

[1/1] init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/c876fe9797d8