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With\nCONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT and SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN both round up to\n192 bytes and share the same slab cache. struct pid.rcu.func and\nstruct kthread.affinity_node both sit at offset 0x78.\n\nWhen a kthread exits via make_task_dead() it bypasses kthread_exit() and\nmisses the affinity_node cleanup. free_kthread_struct() frees the memory\nwhile the node is still linked into the global kthread_affinity_list. A\nsubsequent list_del() by another kthread writes through dangling list\npointers into the freed and reused memory, corrupting the pid's\nrcu.func pointer.\n\nInstead of patching free_kthread_struct() to handle the missed cleanup,\nconsolidate all kthread exit paths. Turn kthread_exit() into a macro\nthat calls do_exit() and add kthread_do_exit() which is called from\ndo_exit() for any task with PF_KTHREAD set. This guarantees that\nkthread-specific cleanup always happens regardless of the exit path -\nmake_task_dead(), direct do_exit(), or kthread_exit().\n\nReplace __to_kthread() with a new tsk_is_kthread() accessor in the\npublic header. 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