linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot without producing any display output

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wj0E9vCO_VTiK6xuXAW13ZeeLsW=G3v+yNsCaUm1+H61A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:21:00 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        iommu <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot
 without producing any display output

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 9:02 AM Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@....com> wrote:
>
> With this patch the system works (I haven't created an initrd, so it
> doesn't completely boot and panics on not being able to mount root fs
> but that's expected).

Perfect.

I ended up applying my earlier cleanup patch with just the added
removal of the kfree(), which was the actual trigger of the bug.

It's commit e423fb6929d4 ("driver code: clarify and fix platform
device DMA mask allocation") in my tree. I've not pushed it out yet (I
have a few pending pull requests), but it should be out shortly.

           Linus