Re: crash by cdc_acm driver in kernels 4.8-rc1/5

From: poma
Date: Mon Nov 21 2016 - 18:50:07 EST


On 21.11.2016 21:23, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:58:25PM +0100, Wim Osterholt wrote:
>>
>> I didn't find traces of kernel-4.9-rc5 being ran on any of my laptops, so I
>> can't have seen a crash on rc5. It seems rc5 and rc6 is safe now.
>
> Neither 4.8.10, nor 4.8.9 show the bug.
> It must be a bug ouside cdc_acm that they have fixed. (a late propagation of
> the IRQ-penalty-bug-fix maybe?)
>
> I'm rebuilding 4.8.8 now.
>
> Groeten, Wim.
>


After all the patching and testing I concluded the same,
breakage came and is gone outside drivers/usb/class/
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/?id=v4.9-rc5&id2=v4.9-rc4