linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review

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Message-ID: <20180105145836.GA12951@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:58:36 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        shuahkh@....samsung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:38:23PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> 
> When I start 4.4.110-rc1 on a virtual machine (qemu) init throws a
> segfault and the kernel panics (attempted to kill init).
> The VM host is a Haswell system.
> 
> The same kernel binary boots fine on a (other) Haswell system.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> 4.4.110-rc1     broken
> 4.4.109         ok
> 4.9.75-rc1      ok
> 
> All systems are OpenSuSE 42.3 64bit.
> 
> qemu is started only with:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -enable-kvm  -drive
> file=tvsuse,format=raw,if=none,id=virtdisk0 -device
> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,drive=virtdisk0
> 
> Am I the only one who sees this? Has anyone booted that kernel on qemu?

I've now released 4.4.110, which had 4 more patches on top of what
4.4.109-rc1 had in it, that should hopefully resolve these issues.

Can you test that and let me know if you still have problems?

thanks,

greg k-h