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[PATCH 0/2] ipvs: Fix incorrect use of HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping cpum

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>, Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>, Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>, Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ipvs: Fix incorrect use of HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping cpumask
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, sheviks <sheviks@xxxxxxxxx>, Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:18:25 -0400
Since commit 041ee6f3727a ("kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred
affinity management"), the HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping cpumask may no
longer be correct in showing the actual CPU affinity of kthreads that
have no predefined CPU affinity. As the ipvs networking code is still
using HK_TYPE_KTHREAD, we need to make HK_TYPE_KTHREAD reflect the
reality.

This patch series makes HK_TYPE_KTHREAD an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
and uses RCU to protect access to the HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping
cpumask.

Waiman Long (2):
  sched/isolation: Make HK_TYPE_KTHREAD an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
  ipvs: Guard access of HK_TYPE_KTHREAD cpumask with RCU

 include/linux/sched/isolation.h |  6 +++++-
 include/net/ip_vs.h             | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c  | 13 ++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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2.53.0



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