On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 04:57:09PM -0700, shuah wrote:

On 11/28/19 8:56 AM, shuah wrote:

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On 11/28/19 12:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:23:41PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 02:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

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This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.87 release.
There are 306 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.

Responses should be made by Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:18:09 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
          https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.87-rc1.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
linux-4.19.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

Kernel BUG noticed on x86_64 device while booting 4.19.87-rc1 kernel.

The problematic patch is,

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Jouni Hogander [off-list ref]
     net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject

And this kernel panic is been fixed by below patch,

commit 48a322b6f9965b2f1e4ce81af972f0e287b07ed0
Author: Eric Dumazet [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Nov 20 19:19:07 2019 -0800

     net-sysfs: fix netdev_queue_add_kobject() breakage

     kobject_put() should only be called in error path.

     Fixes: b8eb718348b8 ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in
rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject")
     Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet [off-list ref]
     Cc: Jouni Hogander [off-list ref]
     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]

Now queued up, I'll push out -rc2 versions with this fix.

greg k-h

Ran into this on my test system. I will try rc2.

rc2 worked for me.

Great, thanks for testing and confirming it.

greg k-h