linux-kernel - Re: Next-20151009

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Message-ID: <20151012221435.GA9456@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:14:35 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Next-20151009 - crash during boot

On Mon, Oct 12 2015 at  5:50pm -0400,
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:

> Next-20151009 crashes early in boot (right after I feed cryptsetup
> the passphrase for my root filesystem).
> 
> (Yes, the kernel is 10 commits past linux-next - they're all cleanup patches for
> drivers/staging that shouldn't enter into it)
> 
> It appears to possibly be the same one reported by the "Linux Test Robot",
> which called this out:
> 
> commit e817ef9b89e5bbfdb2a67ca9896909f414b2af91 ("dm ioctl: use kvfree() in free_params()")

Yes, that commit was dropped last week.  Today's linux-next won't have
this problem.  Feel free to revert e817ef9b89e5bbfdb2a67ca9896909 from
your local tree to work-around this.
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