linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6

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Message-ID: <20200130115326.GG6684@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:53:26 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Damian Tometzki <damian.tometzki@...ilie-tometzki.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:10:57PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> It seems that this a random boot crash caused by 987f028b8637cfa7 ("char:
> hpet: Use flexible-array member") and fix is on the way:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202001300450.00U4ocvS083098@www262.sakura.ne.jp/

Hmm, I don't see the connection at a first glance except that both stack
traces lead somewhere down the bowels of k*alloc...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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