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Message-ID: <20200203141313.GA3219450@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 14:13:13 +0000
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        gustavo@...eddedor.com, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: Current Linus tree protection fault in __kmalloc

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:08:19AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:37:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > My git bisect is just done, and it points to the following commit:
> > 
> > commit 987f028b8637cfa7658aa456ae73f8f21a7a7f6f
> > Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> > Date:   Mon Jan 20 17:53:26 2020 -0600
> > 
> >     char: hpet: Use flexible-array member
> > 
> > I have double checked the commit, and looks it is really the 1st bad one.
> 
> Looks like this patch will fix it then:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202001300450.00U4ocvS083098@www262.sakura.ne.jp/

Yes, sorry, I will push this to Linus today, hopefully he picks it up
soon, lots of people are hitting this...

greg k-h